expanse

Example Sentences

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Instead, it fell off his hand somewhere in a sprawling expanse of turquoise-blue water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

I walk a frozen Bothnian Gulf at Nallikari, an obscured lighthouse, a delinquent lifeguard stand, and makeshift saunas stand on white expanse like archaeology.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Silent, Javier Perez walked through the expanse of destroyed vehicles accompanied by his family.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

The view outside his window is a vast expanse of white as far as the eye can see, smoothed over by an equally vast layer of pure blue.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Lush tall grasses spread as far as the eye could see, a rolling green expanse that was disturbed only by a few small, rusted oil pumps and by cattle grazing here and there.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann