Sentence examples for sprawl to be from inspiring English sources

As Rebecca on "Cheers," a part she played back when she was svelte, Alley seemed to sprawl, to be all over the place.

The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award of $45,000 goes to Suzannah Lessard for "Mapping the World: An Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sprawl," to be published by Dial Press.

In the aftermath of Black Saturday, these policies took on a new resonance, with calls for sprawl to be curbed and for development of holiday homes and hobby farms on dispersed sites to cease.

Every meaningful method to measure the degree of urban sprawl needs to be based on a clear definition of "urban sprawl" disentangling causes and consequences of urban sprawl from the phenomenon of urban sprawl itself, as urban sprawl has differing causes and consequences in different regions and regulatory contexts.

Current planning policies implemented by the state suggests that proper attention is given to mitigation of anthropogenic activity, however the dynamics of the urban sprawl continue to be uncontrolled and sporadic.

Energy sprawl deserves to be one of the metrics by which energy production is assessed.

Its basic premise -- that customers first must be happy if they are to buy anything -- means telling clerks in the sprawling stores to be "fast, fun and friendly" and watching them, electronically and otherwise, to make sure that they are.

Not once, not twice, but three times while waiting did I see Mr. Tivo send people sprawling, only to be caught up by fellow mascot-dodgers just before they hit the pavement.

For many years, urban sprawl was thought to be an exclusively American problem; however, this phenomenon is occurring in several other countries.

Unplanned growth of communities (sprawl) is unlikely to be sustainable and has important health consequences, such as obesity and diabetes, that are ripe for further research (Dannenberg et al. 2003; Frumkin et al. 2004).

Under the agreement, two dams on the sprawling Penobscot River are to be torn down, removing important barriers to salmon returning from the ocean to the river to spawn.