Sprawl \Sprawl\ (spr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sprawled} (spr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sprawling}.] [OE. spraulen; cf. Sw. sprattla to sprawl, dial. Sw. spralla, Dan. spr[ae]lle, spr[ae]lde, D. spartelen, spertelen, to flounder, to struggle.] 1. To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
2. To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or trees; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
3. To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. --L'Estrange.
St. Mary's, a sprawling 347-bed institution that sits across from an abandoned brass factory that will soon be razed, is just completing a $19 million expansion project.
In fact, PNM itself attempted to buy Utah Power, based in Salt Lake City and with a sprawling, three-state web of transmission lines, in a transaction that was rejected last year.
In much of the sprawling metropolis of 12m, there are no signs of violence.
Now a museum run by the state Department of Parks and Recreation, the sprawling home is one of the most popular tourist attractions in California.
What the brochures don't say is that this new luxury Israeli resort is a mile down the beach from a sprawling refugee camp called Khan Yunis, where nine Palestinians have been killed since rioting began in Gaza in December.
Reagan, the last of the leaders to arrive at sprawling NATO headquarters, made no comment as he passed a crowd of reporters and diplomats for the first summit session, but NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington stressed the cohesion of the alliance.
The sprawling, high-security compound encloses separate newsrooms for each language service, as well as the networks' reference library on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union used frequently by American and Western scholars.
About 80 percent of the 10 million residents live in urban areas around the sprawling federal district of Mexico City.
Robert Wayne O'Ferrell was questioned most of the day Monday, and agents with bomb-sniffing dogs searched his sprawling Enterprise junk warehouse, a smaller junk shop, and his home in nearby New Brockton, about 75 miles from Montgomery.
Forty children from 8-to 15-years old, accompanied by adults, were expected to take part in the weekend shotgun hunt in the wilds at the sprawling Florida National Guard reservation, southwest of Jacksonville.
In a sprawling factory on the outskirts of Cuernavaca, Nissan Motor Corp. produces the best-selling car in Mexico, the Tsuru.
At its core, the novel twines a love story and a blood feud against the backdrop of a sprawling, deadlocked war.
The private ABS-CBN television station in Manila said troops were placed on alert as a precaution and checkpoints were established along strategic areas of the sprawling metropolis.
Although he studied ways of streamlining the weapons-buying process when he served as Mr. Weinberger's deputy, it is unlikely that Mr. Carlucci can do much in a year's time to reshape the Defense Department's sprawling procurement bureaucracy.
Authorities are hoping to reduce the terrible traffic tie-ups in this sprawling city, with its hodgepodge of narrow streets laid out hundreds of years ago.
But even that isn't likely to stop developers as determined as those who built a sprawling $233.7 million luxury complex in Chicago called Presidential Towers.
It has imposed a rigid four-day format on the once sprawling conclaves of American democracy.
How does one boil down a sprawling novel of 30 chapters and nearly 600 pages?
Students attacked riot police with firebombs as they marched out of the sprawling campus in the west of Seoul ringed by about 8,000 troopers.
Only 13 per cent of Indians have lavatories; the rest use public conveniences or squat in the open air. The impact of this is bad enough in the villages; it is much worse in the sprawling, fast-growing cities.
Rather said in a telephone interview that even though fewer programs are going along, the China sojourn rivals the Japan road trip in budget and scale because of the added logistical complications of covering sprawling China.
Some industry analysts think urgently needed reform of the sprawling public sector will become a major source of new business for management consultants in coming years.
But Hyundai Motor Co., which builds cars at a sprawling plant in the southern city of Ulsan, expects worldwide exports to expand 20% this year, despite slower growth in U.S. sales.
Similarly, savings at GPT contributed to GEC's cash gains last year. Also, by demerging the group through joint-ventures, GEC's sprawling activities have become more manageable.
By now, the schools have evolved into sprawling centers for research, political debates and government executive training courses.
During an interview at his sprawling Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Robertson laughed when asked what it would take to get him to run for elected office.
A sprawling seven-pool, glass-enclosed "bathing temple" completed three years ago draws 1,500 guests a day, increasingly from among younger couples and singles who come here for long weekends to play tennis, relax and flaunt their newfound prosperity.
La Plata is a flat, sprawling town with tree-lined streets.
On the Western side, the sprawling avenue that leads to the gate was renamed June 17 Street, after the date of the uprising.
It was not clear how many buildings were on fire in the sprawling complex, which sits in a wooded, rolling area near the Potomac River.