Sprawling Sentence Examples

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  • Her first shaky step almost sent her sprawling, and he caught her arm quickly.

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  • The restaurant has a sprawling indoor and outdoor dining area.

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  • A gray brick house dominated the landscape, its ranch style sprawling in a U shape with a garage on one end.

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  • Kiera followed as Evelyn turned toward the main house, a sprawling, single-story compound made of brilliant white stone and dotted with hundreds of glass-less windows.

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  • A sprawling castle with thick walls, an old portcullis, and torches glowing along the walls rose up before them.

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  • He tugged her hand, and she followed him out of the library and through the sprawling house and a large kitchen to the back door.

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  • It was toward the end of her first week in the sprawling mansion that was her new home that she wandered down a hall previously unexplored.

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  • The wine cellar had been an addition to the sprawling house, accessible only by leaving the house and descending a set of stairs off the kitchen.

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  • Kiera hid a second translator in her pocket and exited the sprawling house to join him.

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  • The power pushed her off balance, and she caught herself before it sent her sprawling into the blood pooled around her.

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  • Look how he's sprawling!

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  • Just outside the restaurant's doors you will find a sprawling beach where you can enjoy beach volleyball, dancing or simply soaking up the summer sun.

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  • Houston, the nation's third largest city, is a sprawling metropolis.

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  • He was astonished to see the lane empty save for three men sprawling absurdly on the ground.

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  • There was a moment of silence before the door buckled beneath a blow that sent her sprawling.

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  • The Dutchman was left sprawling on the floor only to be booked for diving.

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  • She gritted her teeth in pain and sucked in a breath as she started to fall again.  She glimpsed demons hovering a short distance away over an opening in the jungle.  They looked like massive, angry hornets before disappearing from her line of sight.  A branch grabbed her arm this time and threw her back over the treetops.  This time, she faced a different direction and saw a sprawling palace the size of a mall.

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  • The sprawling, commercially rich A-town is known as the unofficial capital of the South.

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  • The sprawling ranch was a place for family and friends to camp, hence the original name Camp Hill.

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  • From its sprawling oceanfront resorts to its laid-back inns and balmy beach bungalows, the Sunshine State is a slice of heaven for brides and grooms.

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  • The resort is divided into 4 sprawling villages linked by ski runs, an efficient lift system and a regular bus service.

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  • Not all Florida destination weddings include extremely fancy receptions with big bands and sprawling buffets.

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  • From the sprawling property lines to the lavish interior décor, these houses all look perfect inside and out.

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  • Because there are plenty of country music superstars that live on sprawling ranches cleaning out horse stalls, feeding the chickens and working the fields right?

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  • The sprawling staterooms are the premium accommodations available on Disney's ships.

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  • Since HBO's The Sopranos first aired in 1999, New Jersey has been obsessed with granite countertops like the one in Tony Soprano's sprawling kitchen.

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  • Texas is a large and sprawling state with a diverse population.

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  • Therefore, whether your child wants a three-story mansion or a sprawling ranch-style house, she can create it with this unique dollhouse.

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  • The sprawling complex once housed over 500 patients.

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  • It is said that she believed she was being haunted by spirits and so to appease them, and create confusion for any evil spirits that were after her, she had this sprawling estate built - incessantly for 38 years until she died.

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  • The sprawling mansion even had a turret and an entire ballroom on the fourth floor.

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  • If you live in an apartment with a tiny closet, you won't have the same options as someone who lives in a sprawling mansion with a walk-in closet and plenty of room to spread out.

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  • Whichever route visitors choose, they are greeted by panoramic views over the sprawling city of Paris once they reach the top.

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  • Colorado bed and breakfast inns are an electic bunch, a combination of Victorian townhouses, sprawling ranches, and cozy mountain lodges.

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  • The resort amenities include a championship golf course and a sprawling Hawaiian shopping village.

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  • Accommodations in the area are either sprawling luxury beachfront hotels or quiet low-rise condos or timeshares.

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  • The hotel boasts an on-site surfing school, sprawling pools with waterfalls and waterslides and on-property horseback riding trails.

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  • A Charleston family vacation allows you to take a step back in time to explore beautiful beaches, stately mansions, historic landmarks and sprawling plantations.

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  • Elizabethtown is a borough in Lancaster County, known for its small town charm and sprawling suburbs.The Gosselin's house in Elizabethtown was a huge move up for the family of 10.

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  • The king of Landis lived with his harem in a low, sprawling dwelling whose walls gleamed with polished stones set in silver and gold.

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  • The tunes are tighter and more traditionally songlike after this, which is a shame cos sprawling instrumental meltdowns are much more fun.

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  • I first began to write as a teenager, when I first had the idea for a sprawling science fiction and fantasy epic.

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  • She lay in an untidy heap, her head under the table, and her figure sprawling.

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  • Another great book we have discussed is Grant Morrison's Invisibles, a sprawling work which, on first examination seems somewhat impenetrable.

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  • It's a thriving hybrid, a conglomeration of 88 independent cities sprawling over a vast urban Maelstrom.

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  • Ben Davis's sprawling play, with its vision of impending global meltdown, is certainly ambitious.

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  • The same cannot be said for the sprawling slums of Addis Ababa.

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  • At first blush, this sprawling suburb of 213,000 people, seems an unlikely place to resettle Iraqi refugees.

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  • The plants are sprawling vines with edible underground stem tubers.

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  • The backdrop allows her to consider the difficulties of modern relationships for denizens of a sprawling metropolis and its sinister underbelly.

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  • Last year los sprawling roosevelt field project same markets more seems to be.

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  • At the top end of the range you can purchase sit-on or ride-on mowers, perfect for very large gardens and sprawling country estates.

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  • The sprawling 20 acre facility features something for everyone, and the Wild Rivers Mountain is a colossal complex of water slides that features 10 individual attractions.

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  • This epic role-playing game is set in an enormous sprawling fantasy world where you, the player, literally create your own story.

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  • Users can upload and store files with ease, and as a result, the database is sprawling and not very well organized.

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  • For parties of families or friends, or just when you've brought along a really large spread, a large beach blanket is nice for laying claim on the sand or grass and sprawling to your heart's content.

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  • Kansas City is a large and sprawling metropolis, so it's little wonder that there many charity foundations Kansas City is home to.

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  • The Extreme Makeover team gave them a sprawling 4,000-square-foot home, but their bills soon started piling up.

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  • A beer garden provides adult beverages, in the rear of the sprawling market, which spans a full city block.

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  • A fist caught Jule in the mouth and a kick sent him sprawling.

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  • The apartment was a sprawling penthouse.

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  • In this wonderfully sprawling epic again and again he manages to bring a scene, a person, a conversation dramatically to life.

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  • The second and final volume in Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL series is another stylish, sprawling masterwork.

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  • Deborah is taken to the local hospital; a huge sprawling medical metropolis where the majority of the action in the film takes place.

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  • Church bells pealed across the sprawling estate an hour later, signaling the romantic, candlelit ceremony was over.

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  • As we leave the relative wealth of Lima, you will be struck by the numerous shantytowns that surround the sprawling capital.

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  • Today it is a sprawling sink estate characterized by acute poverty and deprivation.

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  • The antebellum era is often associated with slavery, conflict, and sprawling Southern plantations.

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  • With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.

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