Sentence examples for this sprawl from inspiring English sources

At the center of this sprawl is the old town of San Antonio, built by the Spanish in the early 18th century.

Owing to this sprawl, in 1979 the federal government introduced a law on spatial planning that attempted to control and structure the development of settlements.

An oil boom has turned this sprawl of desert and steppe, big enough to swallow almost four Texases, into a sort of Saudi Arabia.

In a fit of Orwellian marketing in 2009, the city renamed this sprawl of Latinos, Asians and other ethnic minorities the "international district".

Ms. Clarke, brought on to document this sprawl, had already tried in the late 1960s to make a film about Mr. Coleman's relationship with Denardo, who is a drummer.

In this sprawl of cheaply constructed factories and worker dormitories, wages are lower, workweeks are longer, and labor accidents and factory fires are more frequent than they are in Shenzhen proper.

I don't mean that in a mean-spirited, God-look-at-the-wall-to-wall-coverage-of-this-sprawling-and-immoral-waste-of-resources way.

Today, you can walk, as he did, around the thoroughfares of this sprawling metropolis.

The crime stood out for its horror, even in this sprawling and chaotic city.

Signs of renewal elsewhere in this sprawling port city were unmistakable.

That has already happened inside the Rosends' town house in this sprawling Northern Virginia suburb.