adjective
- spread out in a sprawling position; lying or stretched out carelessly or awkwardly
Usage: often used predicatively
adverb
- in a sprawling or spread-out manner
Usage: less common than the adjective form
Examples
- The exhausted hiker lay asprawl on the grass after the long climb.
- Children were asprawl across the living room floor, playing video games.
- He found the cat asprawl in the sunny windowsill.
- The teenagers sat asprawl on the beach, enjoying the warm afternoon.
- Books and papers were asprawl across the desk in complete disarray.