Sentence examples for world sprawling from inspiring English sources

THE Central de Abastos wholesale market is the largest of its kind in the world, sprawling over an area half the size of Mexico City's airport.

It's a portable refuge, as much a hideaway as an expression of the man who owns it: sleek, hard, fast and shut off from the world sprawling outside it.

Still, the Francophone world sprawls across four continents and is widely studied as a supplementary tongue.

Disney's chief Bob Iger recently announced that his media and merchandising empire would soon be launching one of its biggest ever theme-park expansions: a "jaw-dropping new world", sprawled across Disney's parks in Florida and California, exploring the Big Mouse's newly purchased mega-franchise, Star Wars.

And tourists looked on in amazement, stunned to see the biggest street party in the world sprawled out in front of them.

From this Tower, the vast world sprawls out before you, awash in colour and life as far as you can see.

And because the cast is so big, the world so sprawling, your attachment to anybody comes with the certain knowledge that they are dispensable, their death just another tiny fracture in the show's tectonically slow movement towards a resolution.

Once again, a burgeoning controversy is engulfing the American yoga world – the sprawling exercise-cum-enlightenment industry that has steadily captured the hearts and minds of Americans with its promise of a buff bod and a fast track to Nirvana.

The finance wizards apparently worried that if Nakheel went under, it would take Dubai World, a sprawling and otherwise profitable conglomerate with worldwide interests from ports to golf courses, with it.

So the future belongs to the people in the world's sprawling shantytowns and burgeoning street markets.

There are now some three dozen megacities in the world, each sprawling areas home to more than 10 million people.