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How to use the word sprawling in a Sentence?

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It wasn’t a change of heart that caused Beijing to pull back its regulatory push on tech companies, it was a concession to economic reality, the goal of furthering state control over sprawling tech empires, however, wasn’t abandoned.

Brock Silvers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This site is so sprawling that we're able to build on the campus. We're getting better and better at this because it seems like the past couple of years the potential playoff team has been the Super Bowl host city, starting in November we started to build contingencies around each round. It’s no secret that the championship game scenario is the most challenging scenario because it obviously shortened everything.

Katie Keenan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The American people are not buying the nonsensical talk of ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ or a voting rights crisis, it’s not a ‘voting rights’ bill. It is a sprawling, sweeping takeover of our democracy.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But Republicans controlled the state legislature. They weren't about to make the congressional districts more representative of the actual electorate. No. So they went to work drawing districts that artificially increased their own advantage, connecting suburban districts with sprawling, rural communities, consolidating minority-heavy areas and generally painting Texas red.

John Avlon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's 116,000 people in this department. The attorney general has a sprawling job. Generally the AG is pretty remote, it seems abundantly clear that Barr has a keen interest in the Durham investigation.

Marshall Jarrett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Providing a defensive briefing, like the one given to Senator Feinstein, is a typical response to these kinds of situations, the refusal to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing, and instead opening a sprawling counter-intelligence investigation of American citizens, is one of many alarming ways that intelligence leaders drastically diverged from normal procedures in their Trump campaign investigation.

Devin Nunes

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Cydney Ireland said. The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an Ohio State University alum, said the school's police department is highly trained. People don’t need to panic.

Rod Wheeler

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What is happening ... is an increase of sprawling urbanization, informality is gaining share in the growth of cities.

Joan Clos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We just heard a loud noise sounding like thunder and saw that the huge mountain collapsed and a huge wave of rubble was moving and sprawling on a wide area, it was just like a nightmare.

Ko Sai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Their dogged determination and skilled investigative techniques were crucial in exposing and dissecting this sprawling corruption scheme.

John Parker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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