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Definition of Sprawled
1. sprawl [v] - See also: sprawl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprawled
Literary usage of Sprawled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"sprawled on the dusty grass, or stood up and shook themselves, that they were
men made over again — wearing their helmets with the cock of self-possession, ..."
2. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"... sprawled, splashing the sunny whiteness with colour ; and round the drive, in
a wide sweep, grew an avenue of the flamboyant-tree, whose blood-red ..."
3. Fighting in Flanders by Edward Alexander Powell (1914)
""In a wheelbarrow was sprawled the body of a little boy. He could not have been
more than seven. We could see where the shell had hit him. ..."
4. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"The other letter was from Trilby, in her bold, careless handwriting, that sprawled
all over the page, and her occasionally imperfect spelling. ..."
5. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Now when they came unto the plot of ground Where stood the boar, hounds dead
about him Dr sprawled about, bleeding from many a lay 315 wound, But still the ..."
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