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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sprawl.

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Examples

  • I returned to the house to find my brain sprawled in my chair, full of tropical drink and looking fashionably tan.

    April 26th, 2009 archmage 2009

  • It hardly needed the name sprawled round the rim: 'Matilda Dom Ang.'

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • It hardly needed the name sprawled round the rim: 'Matilda Dom Ang.'

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • On the outside, pastel colors, a grass and fauna backdrop, a white cursive title sprawled across green, a river in the background.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • One lid has traveled to nieces and nephews from Houston to Berkeley, to Minneapolis and has signatures in English and in Chinese with one child's name sprawled across the top with red marker.

    Fremont Tribune News Articles 2009

  • An open portmanteau sprawled upon the floor, and a whole wardrobe of masculine garments seemed to have been shot at random on to the chairs near it; a dozen soda-water bottles, full and empty, were huddled in one corner; a tea-tray tottered on the extreme edge of a table heaped with dusty books and papers; and at a desk in the centre of the room, with a great paraffin lamp flaring upon his face as he wrote, sat

    Fenton's Quest 1875

  • There are so many areas of the downtown area, restaurants and things kind of sprawled about here or there around the downtown area.

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008 2008

  • On the couch in the lounge, in a kind of sprawled out "I wish we'd stopped halfway through that chocolate fondue" position, but happy despite it all.

    Archive 2008-01-01 StyleyGeek 2008

  • On the couch in the lounge, in a kind of sprawled out "I wish we'd stopped halfway through that chocolate fondue" position, but happy despite it all.

    Loose ends StyleyGeek 2007

  • Amy Blackford "sprawled," to use Mollie's sarcastic and slightly exaggerated description, "all over the tonneau."

    The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls Laura Lee Hope

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