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Pronunciation: [spɹˈɔːld] (IPA)

Sprawled is a word that refers to a person or an animal lying in an awkward position with their limbs spread out. It implies a sense of disorganization, carelessness, or lack of control. There are several synonyms for the word sprawled, including splayed, stretched out, slumped, prostrate, prone, languid, lounging, and reclining. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation, but they all suggest a relaxed or uncontrolled posture. For example, splayed might suggest a more deliberate or intentional pose, while prostrate implies a complete lack of energy or willpower. Whatever the context, the synonyms for sprawled all convey a sense of informality and ease.
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Usage examples for Sprawled

She was sprawled at the bottom of a high cliff.
"For Every Man A Reason"
Patrick Wilkins
He had gone straight through the saloon and into the small room behind, where a man lay sprawled upon a bed in one corner.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Kumpee sat down beside the sprawled body of his brother and drank his cola in equanimity, from time to time placing the bottle between his legs.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills

Famous quotes with Sprawled

  • The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
    Martha Gellhorn
  • I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
    Scott Wolf
  • During my high school years, a boy from my neighborhood named Malcolm chose me to be his friend for a season. His elbow nudged my book in the public library one Saturday afternoon as he sprawled forward across the table feigning some condition—boredom, I suppose. His voice was like shadow—as whispery and as indistinct as shadow, due to an adolescent change. “Do you want to wrestle?” he asked. I have never met anyone since who speaks as Malcolm spoke: He daydreamed; he pronounced strategies out loud (as I raked elm leaves from our lawn and piled them in the curb)—about how he would befriend this boy or that boy, never anyone I knew; Malcolm went to a different high school. “First,” he said, “I will tease him about his freckles. Then I will tease him about his laugh—how his laugh sounds a little like a whinny sometimes. I won’t go too far. You should see how his wrist pivots as he dribbles down the court. “He’s got these little curls above his sideburns. I wish I had those.” (He would catch me up on the way to the library.) “What are you reading? We read that last year. Not really a war story, though, is it? Want to go eat French toast?”
    Richard Rodriguez
  • One moment’s inattention, and the long expected death came at last—unexpectedly! In that agonized moment, sprawled helpless upon the uncaring ground, Polletti realized that no preparation for one’s own death is possible. Death has had too much experience in catching men off guard, in piercing their attitudes and reducing their poses.
    Robert Sheckley
  • He and Don came up to the corpse of the German truck. The scrounger who'd been messing around there was gone. "Who's that asshole gonna sell his scrap to?" Charlie said. "Us- you wait and see. We're dumb enough to pay good money to put these mothers back on their feet now that we stomped 'em." "Yeah, that's like us, all right," Dom agreed. "We-" The truck blew up. Next thing Charlie knew, he was sprawled on the ground a surprisingly long way from the road. Dom- no, a piece of Dom- lay not far away. Charlie tried to reach out. His arm didn't want to work. WHen he looked down at what was left of himself, he understood why. It didn't hurt. Then, all at once, it did. His shriek bubbled through the blood filling his mouth. Mercifully, blackness enfolded him.
    Harry Turtledove

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