sprawl 的 3 个定义
- to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- to sit or lie in a relaxed position with the limbs spread out carelessly or ungracefully: He sprawled across the bed.
- to spread out, extend, or be distributed in a straggling or irregular manner, as vines, buildings, handwriting, etc.
- to crawl awkwardly with the aid of all the limbs; scramble.
- to stretch out as in sprawling.
- to spread out or distribute in a straggling manner.
- the act or an instance of sprawling; a sprawling posture.
- a straggling array of something.
sprawl 近义词
sit or lie spread out
更多sprawl例句
- During the 1980s, urban sprawl and increased outdoor recreation meant that humans and bears were interacting more and more.
- Depending on who you ask, it represents sprawl or badly needed units that will satisfy the city’s larger housing goals.
- Martinek also said he believes there is enough space for infill development throughout the city that will help Oceanside meet its housing requirements rather than a project that contributes to urban sprawl.
- One of the major problems was that the county allowed sprawl developers to offset projects by purchasing carbon offsets in international markets, which have little oversight or accountability.
- In 2009, county planners rejected the project, saying it was out of step with the county’s plan to concentrate housing development in village areas, rather than maintaining the county’s patterns of sprawl.
- “To minimize sprawl” has become a bedrock catchphrase of the core political ideology.
- Obama and the Democrats have embraced the argument that suburbs and sprawl are bad for you.
- Auto factories tend to sprawl horizontally over huge lots, and have flat roofs.
- The goal, of course, is to facilitate ever more densification of urban areas and to rein in the dreaded suburban “sprawl.”
- And when it comes to muddling through the ever-expanding sprawl of the Internet, you can never have too many tricks.
- The grass still made a carpet over its roots, inviting me to sprawl at full length and renew our voiceless communion.
- The black man sprang high up into the air, and shot out both his arms and his legs, coming down all a-sprawl among the heather.
- The movement had stopped, and he was allowed to sprawl on the ground.
- This paragon, though seventy years old, used to dress in baby's clothes and sprawl about upon the floor.
- Even the multiplication table failed here, and at this, variously a-sprawl on the turf beneath, the smaller fry giggled.