sprawl
/spɹɔl/ verbe C1En français : s'affaler, s'étaler, s'étendre
- To sit with the limbs spread out.
- To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
- To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
He/she/it sprawls · Prétérit sprawled · Participe passé sprawled · Forme en -ing sprawling
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- sprawl
- He/she/it
- sprawls
- Prétérit
- sprawled
- Participe passé
- sprawled
- Forme en -ing
- sprawling
Dans la bibliothèque
In that deeply peaceful atmosphere one could forget, or remember only as some fantastic nightmare, that darkened study with the sprawling, bloodstained figure on the floor.
The dead man lay on his back, sprawling with outstretched limbs in the centre of the room.
I had a vision of him sprawling upon the floor with blood running down his face while Holmes rummaged him for weapons.
“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
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