Sprawl

Definitions

1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
   countable, uncountable
2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
   countable, uncountable
3. A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.”

“Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come⟳ from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land⟳.”

“Getting people to think⟳ about the future is difficult. Just ask⟳ some of the people who end⟳ up being most concerned about sprawl—the millions who move⟳ into suburban subdivisions, only to have⟳ their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.”

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