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Meanings of sprawl in English

Portuguese
alastramento urbano
Catalan
conurbació
Spanish
extensión urbana

An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.

alastramento urbano
Catalan
posat desmanegat

A sprawl is a martial arts and wrestling term for a defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, typically double or single leg takedown attempts.

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posat desmanegat
Catalan
estendre's

To spread out in a disorderly fashion.

estendre's
Usage of sprawl in English
1
Think of a city centre university and you tend to think 'sprawl'.
The Guardian
2
I know a lot of New Yorkers can't stand the concrete sprawl.
This is where we live
3
Today, even the lake has disappeared under the sprawl of Mexico's capital.
1492 the year our world began
4
Go ahead; you might as well sprawl out and make yourselves comfortable.
Foundation and Empire
5
Winter's coming on, so the mattresses sprawl across the living room floor.
Radio NZ
6
The situation was too serious for the indulgence of an emotional sprawl.
The Real Adventure
7
Urban sprawl and suburb development have a dominant impact on forest fragmentation.
Pubmed
8
While ordinances are in place to constrain urban sprawl, Falkner still worries.
Reuters
9
Despite being part of Denver's suburban sprawl, Aurora has a small-town feel.
The Guardian
10
Like most beach cities, Kihei is a one-dimensional exercise in suburban sprawl.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
11
A coyote whose habitat was destroyed by urban sprawl ate my homework
X-treme latin: lingua latina extrema: all the latin you need to ...
12
Atlantic Cities Is there such a thing as peak sprawl in Houston?
Radio NZ
13
Rather than the suburban sprawl she'd expected, she was in horse country.
Hush: a novel
14
The untidy sprawl seemed out of place in the otherwise sumptuous surroundings.
Gladiatrix
15
Actually he does not sit as much as sprawl and get lucky.
Quicksilver
16
They collide and sprawl across the dining table, scattering crockery and candlesticks.
Sympathy for the devil
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Translations for sprawl
Sprawl through the time
Sprawl across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common