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  • But what he now referred to as The Sprawling Novel remained (as far as he could tell) unpublishable, and he was not sure that it ever would be, but it was difficult to give up hope on something that you had put so much into.

    And then she was gone 2009

  • "Sprawling" when talking about the dull story of three dull-sounding people is not a good thing.

    HH Com 179 Miss Snark 2006

  • Sprawling and diverse, Arapahoe is a swing county, and it backed President Barack Obama in the general election.

    A View From One Colorado County Ann Zimmerman 2012

  • Sprawling and less tightly plotted than his earlier work.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Ulysses 2010

  • Sprawling across the skyline, this is the modern-day tent city which has returned to haunt America,” we read in the Daily Mail, beside grim photographs of tents and huts made of wooden pallets lined up along a riverbank.

    2009 March 05 « Scavenging 2009

  • Sprawling over a high plateau between Madrid and the Mediterranean, it is the birthplace of Manchego cheese and Pedro Almodóvar, and the legendary stomping-ground of Don Quixote himself.

    The Purple Gold of La Mancha J. S. Marcus 2011

  • Sprawling and less tightly plotted than his earlier work.

    Book Report: Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett Ulysses 2010

  • M83: Hurry Up We're Dreaming Sprawling double album of dance-based, chilled out poppish songs.

    Cliff Chenfeld: The Best Music of 2011 Cliff Chenfeld 2011

  • Sprawling tables were full of communications, new media, field, data, and get-out-the-vote staffers working round the clock to support a thriving volunteer-led ground operation.

    Jeremy Bird: Fired Up for the Final Two Weeks Jeremy Bird 2010

  • A Peek Inside a Sprawling Photo Archive The 200,000 images held by the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation include the archives of two famed Life magazine photographers, as well as one of the most extensive collections of Civil War photographs.

    History, One Photo at a Time Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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