Sentence examples for sprawl from inspiring English sources

But a verdant sprawl of 54 acres on the hill's crest is not available for money of any heft or colour.

Houston's population is close to 4.5m if you including the surrounding urban sprawl and three-quarters of its workforce drive an average of 25 minutes each morning to their labours with no one else in the car.

While sometimes seen as quintessentially American, a product of suburban sprawl and car culture, gated communities have become increasingly fashionable worldwide.

In winter, you can sprawl on the couches in front of the fire in this 1900s cottage and enjoy the aromas and banter from the open kitchen.

This is a truly historic community - the original inhabitants of Mumbai's seven islands, the fishing tribe that created the bedrock for the scattershot sprawl of today's metropolis.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) ran a "population-centric" data analysis program in Afghanistan, called Nexus 7, that sought to divine trends in the war through examining fluctuations in the prices of daily goods – a sprawl in Darpa's mission that discomfited intelligence veterans.

The result - which was shot, like Traffic, by Soderbergh himself - is a cross between the cool, sexy wit of Out of Sight and the epic, top-to-bottom sprawl of Traffic.

Ever since I landed in Cleveland the previous day, the landscape had been the same, a sort of centerless, semi-­urban sprawl of highways, subdivisions, shopping malls, warehouses, gas stations and factories.

And so endlessly on, until you end up with what a sprawl of what A Sivanadan terms "cultural enclaves and feuding nationalisms".

Labour did much to reduce poverty, but little to stop the growth and sprawl of the welfare state.A thicket of entangled benefits has sprung up, compared by some to Japanese knotweed.

The city's transport infrastructure has not kept pace with its rapid growth and sprawl.