Vocabulary
Sprawling
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
spread out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- A development model which thinks construction is progress be it the hotels in the north or big interchanges, wide roads in the middle of cities or sprawling housing societies on their outskirts.
- For Karachi, a sprawling coastal metropolis of over 20 million, the implications are dire.
- Due to these factors, large parts of the city have turned into a sprawling mess of structures that can quickly become a death trap for their residents.
- One could argue that an exceptionally erudite scholar of Hindi would perhaps feel challenged traversing India`s sprawling `Hindi heartland`, also called the `cow belt`.
- The municipal, industrial and commercial needs of sprawling urban populations are rising rapidly.
Synonyms
spread, stretch, straggle, ramble, trail, spill
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