asprawl
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5ADJ.
immense, open, own, small, vast
VERB + ASPRAWL
drawing, dropped, flung
ASPRAWL + NOUN
couch, shoulder, sofas, space
PREP.
on, with
ADV.
carelessly, fully
Definitions
adj
Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
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,
prep
Sprawling over or across.
All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,
Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.
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61887, 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
Wiktionary[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,
Wiktionary1984, 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 c
WiktionaryAll through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolto
WiktionaryHundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.
WiktionaryFrom a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,
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