Sentence examples for sprawling distances from inspiring English sources
In most of the American cities with the worst traffic, such as Los Angeles, Houston, Honolulu or the Bay Area, commuters are constrained by hills, heat and sprawling distances.
He identified certain culprits: suburbanization and its sprawling distances, our fondness for electronic entertainment, the time pressures that result when both parents hold jobs.
America is a land of large distances and sprawling suburbs and is designed for the car.
They sprawled into the distance, and from 1,000ft made Addis resemble any one of a dozen small cities I could have been flying into that night.
Back then, the Javits Center sprawled in the distance, shining and new, but people tended to focus on the drug addicts and the prostitutes in the foreground, which happened to be the sidewalk in front of his apartment house.
But whereas surveillance cameras are often discrete and mysterious objects of authoritative control, Schülke's iteration is sprawling and clearly noticeable from a distance.
Further, distances here are likely underestimated as sprawling cities' suburbs often encroach on proximate volcano es).
The high density and tall skyline of Hong Kong's urban area is due to a lack of available sprawl space, with the average distance from the harbour front to the steep hills of Hong Kong Island at 1.3 km, much of it reclaimed land.
Sprawling south from CitiField, it lies within walking distance for the Chinese of Flushing, the Mexicans and Ecuadoreans of Corona, the Colombians of Jackson Heights.
Most of the industry that offended him was concentrated on the Slough Trading Estate, a sprawling complex of nearly 500 acres a short distance from the town centre that was the first - and is still the biggest - business park in Europe.
