478 examples of sprawled in sentences

The other sprawled aft, and at a nearer sight of him some of the men broke out into nervous titters.

My head buzzed like a beehive, and when the moon set I had no power to pick my steps, and stumbled and sprawled in the darkness.

Brass pots were being scoured in the doorways; babies sprawled in the sun; a smell of cooking sweetmeats filled the air; a band of small urchins in the roadway, wearing the sham accoutrements of war, was prancing blithely to the song of "Lang-taraf-Tippalaerlee," and as their leader pulled up to give me a grave and perfect salute I recognised the son of old Bahadur Rai.

At the feet of Gnob sprawled a wolf-dog, which bared its gleaming teeth and prepared to spring after the boy.

Li Wan joined him, and the dogs sprawled panting on the ground beside them.

Before, they had been sprawled about in sunny places, smoking and sleeping, and writing on postcards.

Those who were too weak to sit sprawled upon the straw and often had barely room in which to turn over, so closely were they bestowed.

Its sinking roots had split a rock, over which the other roots sprawled in gnarly persistence.

In a sleep, Thick with the fumes of the accursed grape, Sprawled the false Imam.

Books and magazines, their covers spread wide as if they had been flung, sprawled where they lay.

Ben motioned, and Fenris sprawled at his feet.

As if struck by a tornado he was hurled into the air, and curtailed and indirect though the blow was, he sprawled down stunned and insensible in the grass.

Ben sprang aside, just in time, and he saw his chance as the great, reeling form sprawled past.

Soldiers were everywhere sprawled over the platforms, knotted up in sleep, yawning, stretching their limbs, eating, smoking and swearing.

Right by him he saw a handsome French half-breed sprawled out in the sun against a building, looking him straight in the face and flashing up at him a friendly smile.

The laughing crews of idlers sprawled in the warmth, gambling, telling stories, singing.

All of rich summer smacked, of autumn all: Pears at our feet, and apples at our side Rolled in luxuriance; branches on the ground Sprawled, overweighed with damsons; while we brushed From the cask's head the crust of four long years.

The others sprawled lazily upon the soft grass.

The remaining four were asleep, grotesquely sprawled over sofas and chairs.

The studiously characteristic signature quivered and sprawled in an unfamiliar manner.

The Pilgrim was sprawled upon the bunk with his face in his arms, snoring in a peculiarly rasping way that Billy, heavy-eyed as he was, resented most unreasonably.

" Billy, not quite sure that he had sufficiently impressed Dill with the importance of the matter, turned at the door and looked in again, meaning to add an emphatic word or two; but when he saw that Dill was staring round-eyed at nothing at all, and that Lamb was lying sprawled wide open on the floor, his face relaxed from its anxious determination.

Now, half-mad with fear and surprise, she sprang forward at full gallop, slipped and almost sprawled on the floor, and then thundered out of the door.

Larry yelled with joy as the sheriff and his men pitched forward and sprawled upon the floor, and we were at it again in a hand-to-hand conflict to clear the room.

When Casey reached for it and got it, without apology or warning, the girl sprawled backward and howled.

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