Sprawling in example sentence

The Spirit of September 12WASHINGTON, DC – The terrorist attacks on the United States ten years ago provoked a powerful reaction: the dispatch of American troops, first to Afghanistan and then to Iraq, and the creation of a sprawling new federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to coordinate and supervise measures and programs aimed at protecting the US from further assaults.

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It's become a sprawling urban area dependent on dirty fuel, dirty energy, particularly coal.

It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.

Then in my late 20s, I shifted to the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai, and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter.

You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.

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