Sprawly

PSRC's forecasting assumes quite large increases in the region's population, and since GHG emissions are a global problem, every person who moves in from an area that does worse (like the sprawly cities that many Seattle transplants come from) will represent a net improvement in overall GHG emissions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To the extent that European nations and other advanced democracies are less sprawly and less car-oriented than the U.S., the difference is mainly the result of geography, income and historical contingency, not preference. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If other countries were as wealthy as the U.S., had as much land suitable for development as the U.S., and were less contrained by historical circumstances such as road widths established in medieval times, they would probably be just as sprawly as the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The urban form is the environmental form and we are still committed to making our region be even more sprawly than it now is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are simply adding a bit of rail to what will remain a sprawly road based system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sunset is a bit sprawly, in an attractive way, unlike Firefly which is redder in winter but more upright. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Happy birthday, you crazy big sprawly central Canadian city! ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The spider?” said I. “The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is a sprawly place, with no apparent urban planning. ❋ Unknown (2004)

All that night the sprawly writing on the pages, the constant mistakes in spelling and grammar, and the weird punctuation danced before his eyes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Houses in Melbourne were of two types: either spacious, white, two-storeyed buildings almost as broad as they were long, with balcony and verandah to the front, and needing but to stand in a sandy compound to advertise their origin; or low, sprawly villas a single storey high, Covering much ground space, and wearing their circlet of verandah like a shady hat. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But those times were like a lost paradise, and the sprawly corrals around the place now stood near empty and growing over in ragweed. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

So I guessed I might as well give my powerful great-grandfather a try, and read his little red-leather book with its sprawly handwritin. ❋ V.C Andrews (1981)

They were part of her, like the sprawly way she sat, her large movements of arm as she spoke, the way she held her cigarettes high in the air. ❋ Marilyn French (1977)

[Phil], get your sprawlies [away] from me ❋ Tinymachine (2009)