Synonyms:
sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly
Meaning: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sprawl, sprawling
Meaning: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
Usage examples
Davy slipped and came sprawling squarely down on the lemon pies.
Brion's foot lashed out and caught the other man's leg, sending him sprawling.
An attack from behind, so sudden and unexpected, threw the squire sprawling on his face into a stone pile.
As I stood, I plunged and staggered, and I found the dogs sprawling, with whimperings, on the heaving floor.
Yet it passed me, gripped Montgomery, and holding him, fell headlong beside him and pulled him sprawling upon itself in its death-agony.
The young man threw out his hands towards her, tripped over the three-inch-high border of grass, and fell in a sprawling heap at her feet.
Sometimes, in taking a walk through the wood, you would find yourself suddenly sprawling on all fours, having trampled on one of Gibbey's salmon.
Andy gave a yell like an Indian, about to do a stage scalping act, and fairly dived over the handlebars of his bicycle, sprawling in a heap on the dusty road.
Then up the road, by the awful thousands, vomiting out of hills, sprawling from caves, curling, huge fingers of beasts, around and about and down to the Man Cities.
As Grace spoke they both turned quickly, for there was a sudden noise of an overturned chair in the further corner of the room, and they could see a dark figure sprawling on the floor.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Triceratops, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oldham, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0