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What is another word for sprawls?

Pronunciation: [spɹˈɔːlz] (IPA)

Sprawls, which means to spread out in an ungainly or awkward way, has several synonyms that can be used to describe the same action. Some of these synonyms include splay, stretch, extend, straddle, reach, and spread. These words convey the same meaning as sprawls but carry different connotations. Splay suggests a widening or diverging of limbs or branches, while stretch connotes expansion or elongation. Extend and reach have similar meanings and imply a reaching out or stretching forward. Straddle gives the impression of one standing with legs wide apart, and spread suggests spreading out or opening up wide. All these words can be used interchangeably with sprawl depending on the context and desired effect.
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  • Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
    Carly Simon
  • He has wasted the day, he tells himself, he has wasted the day as he has wasted so many days of his life … while that huge work with which he has cheated himself, that enormous novel which would lift him at a bound from the impasse in which he stifles, whose dozens of characters would develop a vision of life in bountiful complexity, lies foundering, rotting on a beach of purposeless effort. Notes here, pages there, it sprawls through a formless wreck of incidental ideas and half-episodes; utterly without shape. He is not even a hero for it.
    Norman Mailer

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