16 example sentences using sprawl.
Sprawl used in a sentence
Sprawl in a sentence as a noun
Los Angeles is choked with sprawl and traffic.
As it is, nothing but sprawl is permitted.
Actually, they are "dumb" rules designed to create suburban sprawl.
"There are risks, of course: People might be more open to a longer daily commute, leading to even more urban sprawl.
The towns, cities and trains in Europe I see on travel shows just look prettier than the sprawling pattern of chain restaurants and gas stations I see here.
London and New York are famously unaffordable, possibly with prices driven by sprawl and water or a greenbelt.
The unsurprising result is that it has a really bad case of suburban sprawl, constrained by geological boundaries.
High density buildings are much more environmentally friendly than suburban sprawl.
Sprawl in a sentence as a verb
If I have to choose between giant skyscrapers and massive suburban sprawl I will opt for the 100 floor elevator trip over the 15 minute car ride any day.
The result is higher prices, more sprawl, and a generally depressing force on the kinds of great things that come from sufficient population density.
Compact cities are more efficient, but congested urban sprawl is most definitely not. Strict building regulations are part of what make this place productive and desirable in the first place.
Silicon Valley itself is better-than-average suburban sprawl, but it's still suburban sprawl.
People may be willing to drive farther to work, increasing sprawl, and also dropping the quantity demanded for housing near the core, dropping prices.- public transit disappears?
Most people in this country simply prefer itIf people prefer it, why does the government have to mandate it by law?Suburban zoning and -- even more importantly -- minimum parking requirements force property developers to build nothing but sprawl with isolated pods of single-use development.
They particularly want last generation's rich people's things, as this generation's rich people's things are have not gained widespread popularity.- suburban sprawl has low up-front costs with real costs coming in decades later, as North American suburbs are starting to experience today- suburbs offer a very seductive lifestyle proposition - the space and privacy of the country and the convenience of city life.
Yes, there absolutely are policies that encourage people to climb to a perch from which it is incredibly easy to fall: social pressure against out-of-wedlock births; ineffective sexual education; social stigma against and a lack of services providing female reproductive health in general, contraceptives, emergency contraceptives and abortion; the structure of our health system disincentivizing preventative medical care in general; bankruptcy 'reform'; predatory lending practices; social stigma against the trades; corporate abuse of the safety net to depress wages; college grants and their unregulated effect on tuition; the college loan system in general; regressive taxation; child tax credits; safety net rewards based on family size; the jarring transition between qualifying for social safety net programs and not qualifying; military rewards based on family size; subsidized sprawl and a lack of public transportation; zero-tolerance laws and policies; substandard school districts; etc.
Sprawl definitions
an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
See also: conurbation
an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
See also: sprawling
sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"
See also: straggle