Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "sprawled"

Lexicographically close words:
sprained; sprains; sprang; sprats; sprawl; sprawling; sprawly; spray; sprayed; sprayer
  1. Hampstead sat for a moment looking after her, his lips parted, his great hands set upon his knees with fingers sprawled very widely, until Bessie was out of view behind the double doors that admitted to her father's presence.

  2. Upon the floor of the launch sprawled the figure of a man.

  3. She stopped suddenly as she came in view of the spot where the weasel-faced islander had sprawled upon the rocks.

  4. They fought for some moments, while the sea-sick Cubans sprawled on the deck watched with languid rolling glances the ferocity of this scuffle.

  5. And the whole bush round about you might have thought the scene of a recent battle, what with the drunken men lying here and there in all manner of attitudes, with twisted bodies and sprawled legs.

  6. Before Potter could spring over him something thudded dully on the back of his head, the world seemed upheaving and splitting apart, and he staggered, swayed, and sprawled upon the ground at Hildegarde's feet.

  7. He saw something there, blackly outlined, something that sprawled grotesquely, offensively, something that sprawled motionless and horrible.

  8. Many of the men lay holding on and praying aloud; many more were sick, and had crept into the bottom, where they sprawled among the cargo.

  9. Wine, ale, and money were all plentiful; many sprawled gambling in the straw of the barn, many were still drunken from the noontide meal.

  10. After the fireman went away, we fixed two seats facing each other and sprawled all over them.

  11. He followed us into the car and we all sprawled down into seats, because we were good and tired.

  12. All of a sudden I saw something else sprawled all over the sheet.

  13. Two of us were pulling away as hard as we could, helping one of the trainmen, two were helping the man on the other platform, and Pee-wee was sleeping peacefully inside with his head on the floor and one of his legs sprawled up over the seat.

  14. He leaped upon the house and helped Dolph and Otie furl the mainsail that lay sprawled in the lazy-jaeks.

  15. The two walked forward over the deckload and sat on the fore-gaff, which sprawled carelessly where it had fallen when the halyards were let run.

  16. He found Bradish sprawled in a morris-chair which was lashed to a radiator.

  17. He lay sprawled on the bottom of the Polly, his hornbeam hands clutching the keel, his face upraised wonderingly to the skies that were flooded with the glory of the morning.

  18. They sprawled in yellow daylight while he swore And gasped and lugged his everlasting load Of bombs along what once had been a road.

  19. A gang of men had hoisted it into position last night by the flare of naphtha lamps, and now it trod securely on air above the new bootshop whose advertisement sprawled across half a page of the morning paper.

  20. Then they went to the park, where they sprawled on the grass in obscure corners.

  21. One, however, flung himself panting on to his chest, and sprawled partly across his own and partly on his neighbour's.

  22. Dave sat up and grinned down at the good-looking, sun-bronzed youth sprawled out on the grass at his side.

  23. The sprawled figure whom the German now covered with his rifle was none other than Freddy Farmer!

  24. The captain presently seated himself on a bank out on the marshes, with his cane lying across his knees, while Comethup sprawled at his feet and watched the distant line of the sand hills beyond which the sea lay.

  25. As he sprawled now in the hammock between the apple-trees he gradually became conscious and his mind resumed the thread of thought sleep had broken off.

  26. So was Evan Nelson--he lay sprawled on a hammock swung between two apple-trees behind the bank.

  27. Behind them a few forms twisted and sprawled on the broken ground, but they were no sooner down than running stretcher-bearers pounced on them, lifted and bore them back to the shelter of their own lines.

  28. Veins sprawled over his hands which rested on the arms of his chair, and the knuckles shone like ivory through the drawn transparent skin.

  29. The savages sprawled around the fire, bragging and boasting and lying as was their wont of an evening.

  30. He twitched his knife out suddenly, sprawled off from the railing, and took several hasty strides up and down the piazza.

  31. The children, stopping their song in mid-air, scrambled and sprawled all over each other in their efforts to secure the coveted money.

  32. There was no garden, but here and there an unkempt geranium or rank great bush of marguerites sprawled in the uncut grass, and rose bushes, long grown wild, stood in spraying clusters that were higher than a man's head.

  33. When they had talked awhile, they went up to see Peter, who was sprawled on the floor, busy with hundreds of leaden soldiers.

  34. Phil, clinging to the flag-pole, was sprawled on the deck with his legs stretched out to fend the boat off.

  35. He jumped out of the dingey, pushed it down the beach into the water and sprawled across the bow.

  36. He sprawled there for a while, his bruised body refusing movement.

  37. I tell you, silver has no use against me--" Cappen sprawled on the floor and rippled fingers across his harp.

  38. Blood from the giant's head was welling out, hot and sticky against my face as I lay sprawled on him.

  39. Hahn was sprawled at the gravity plate switchboard.

  40. The fluorescent tubes lighted with their lurid glare; they painted purple the body of the giant duty man who lay sprawled at my feet.

  41. His face resumed its scowl as he entered the room where Max sprawled in a bamboo chair with his feet on another and the petted terrier of the establishment seated alertly on his chest.

  42. He laughed at her from the sofa, on which he sprawled at length.

  43. There I was sprawled flat on the range, five miles from the chuck wagon and a thunderin' big storm whooping down out of the mountains.

  44. But Slim, sprawled atop the big boulder, was practically invisible at that distance.

  45. Ferral, all unconscious of the fact that two of his enemies were approaching, sprawled out in the front seat of the Red Flier and puzzled his brain over the queer situation in which he found himself.

  46. Ferral drew back in the seat to give him every chance, and Matt sprawled with a jar that made the car shiver from crank to tail light.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprawled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.