"ugly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the end, the town voted overwhelmingly to adopt what became known as the "UK Stewardship Plan" to protect our green fields and prevent ugly urban sprawl.
- Environmentalists say that lowering the obstacles to scattershot development could easily produce ugly sprawl, cookie-cutter subdivisions and environmental degradation.
- The unlucky ones would be forced to spend the winter in an ugly sprawl of crude huts that sprang up on the fringes of the settlement.
- All that could be seen was a huge, ugly sprawl of flesh the color of polished eggplant.
- Paradoxically, he says, the only relief now from the ugly sprawl (once cattle ranches and fruit orchards) is the verdant Disney complex itself.
- It was an ugly sprawl of tents and hootches built around an old French villa in the middle of a rubber plantation.
- I believe decades of unplanned growth (with its ugly sprawl) has led far more people to leave the Island than did the poor economy of the early 1990's.
- They hid the city and the ugly sprawl of squatters' shacks that huddled around it.
- Vincovci came and then, against a flaming dawn, the ugly sprawl of Zagreb.
- He collapsed in an ugly sprawl, as the flames moved toward him.
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