The sprawling district in the northwestern part of the state meanders through seven counties and includes 79 municipalities.

It is now the heart of a sprawling 20-square-block retail district along Brush Creek, well within the city limits.

But Mr. Brewster, a 52-year-old Democrat who represents a sprawling rural district in southern Oklahoma, is also a small-business owner, a cattleman and a hunter.

Transportation, capital, labor markets, and the division of labor in production bound the scattered industrial plants and communities into a sprawling metropolitan district.

It forms the centerpiece of Moscow City, a sprawling financial district that will inject a new modern character into this ancient, frenetic city.

For his first three terms, Boswell represented a sprawling district that stretched from the Illinois border almost to the Nebraska border.

The sprawling district encompassed southwestern Minnesota, and included all or portions of 31 counties.

Indeed, from some vantage points, the Trade Center and its sprawling financial district even looked like it was part of Jersey City, blending seamlessly into the budding skyline.

Across from where he sat, a sprawling residential district had been totally leveled, as in Herat, by Soviet carpet-bombing.

The sprawling 12th district encompasses parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Lower Manhattan.