Meaning of asprawl | Babel Free

Definitions

Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).

not-comparable

Examples

“1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.”

“[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,”

“1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces”

“[…] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,”

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