adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
send sb/sth flying/sprawling/reeling etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sprawling city of 2.6 million
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Mexico City is a sprawling city of more than 20 million inhabitants.
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The sprawling conference and resort center even has its own transportation system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All experience shows that the best intelligence comes from small, well-run agencies, not huge sprawling empires.
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How was she supposed to concentrate with that sprawling figure almost in her line of vision?
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I will be profoundly relieved when I can escape from the prosaic explanations and defences of this present sprawling mess of words.
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It was written in a sprawling hand that was difficult to read.
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So, a little nervous of the sprawling city, Mavis moved in with Ronnie.
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Their function was to work, to procreate and to give place to the next generation; while the sprawling capital endured.
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There was a big dance floor and several sprawling tiers of tables and bars.
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They lend to an airport lounge the look of a grotesque, sprawling creche peopled by monster babies.