Synonyms for sprawl

Grammar : Verb

Spell : sprawl

Phonetic Transcription : sprɔl

Top 10 synonyms for sprawl

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Définition of sprawl

Origin : Old English spreawlian "move convulsively," with cognates in the Scandinavian languages and North Frisian spraweli, probably ultimately from PIE root *sper- "to strew" (see sprout (v.)). Meaning "to spread or stretch in a careless manner" is attested from 1540s; of things, from 1745. Related: Sprawled; sprawling.

verb sit or lie spread out

Example sentences :

I can sprawl on that seaweed and be as comfortable as a gull on a clam flat.
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Once aboard, he fell in a sprawl on the boat's bottom, breathing heavily.
Extract from : « Owen Clancy's Happy Trail » by Burt L. Standish

We'd go a few steps, y'u know, 'n' then sprawl all over oursel's.
Extract from : « Tramping with Tramps » by Josiah Flynt

They wander about and sprawl in the shade of fine old trees.
Extract from : « Little Tony of Italy » by Madeline Brandeis

Keep your horse well in hand all through, that he may not sprawl.
Extract from : « Riding for Ladies » by Mrs. Power O'Donoghue

Losing all sense of caution, he would begin to sprawl upon the ice.
Extract from : « The Shadow Passes » by Roy J. Snell

Sprawl took a long squint first, and then handed the glass to me.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. I of 2) » by Michael Scott

Sprawl was silent for a minute, and then handed him the return.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. I of 2) » by Michael Scott

Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant.
Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce

Hence Christian was left to sprawl in the Slough of Despond.
Extract from : « Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress » by Samuel Phillips Day

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