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In natural English speech, "sprawl" appears in contexts such as: "you know that's when uh when cities begin to spread out quite a bit how are city planners and Architects like yourself handling this issue of urban sprawl well um the reason for the urban spraw is uh or the opportunity is that we have cheap energy resources uh if energy becomes more expensive um the". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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you know that's when uh when cities begin to spread out quite a bit how are city planners and Architects like yourself handling this issue of urban

sprawl well um the reason for the urban spraw is uh or the opportunity is that

we have cheap energy resources uh if energy becomes more expensive um the

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verb

To sit with the limbs spread out.

“There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.”

verb

To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

“The hatched young ones are ſodl to thoſe who breed them up, and theſe try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ſoon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ſprawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ſtruggling.”

Synonyms:splay

noun

An ungainly sprawling posture.

noun

A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

“He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.”

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