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They went on a five-mile walk together, in and around Leon’s vast grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 29, 2026
The industry is fragmented, with the vast majority of carriers operating 10 or fewer trucks.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 28, 2026
“The vast majority are not classic homeless people,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 28, 2026
The US Geological Survey said the disaster -- the deadliest for Nepal since a 2015 earthquake -- was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy debris.
From Barron's β Aug. 28, 2026
From the crest of the hill we saw it, like a vast scar on the green German landscape; a city of low gray barracks surrounded by concrete walls on which guard towers rose at intervals.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The lands whose governance was at stake are vaster than any nation, and it’s possible the consequences of the vote will be felt for eons.
From Salon β Aug. 19, 2024
Beyond the disappearing local newspapers and women’s vaster choices, I couldn’t hazard a guess about the fate of pageants.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 25, 2023
And while disposing treated water in the ocean is common practice for nuclear plants, critics have pointed out that the amount being released from Fukushima is on an unprecedented, far vaster scale.
From BBC β Aug. 24, 2023
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks β Apr. 19, 2023
Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
“Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world,” Zhou told Nixon as they rode to the guest quarters that Tuesday.
From Washington Post β Feb. 20, 2022
But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.
From New York Times β Jan. 20, 2017
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker β Feb. 1, 2016
Today, Ober owns several stores in a South Coast Plaza that is the vastest and most prosperous of all of Orange County’s many temples of shopping.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 17, 1990
"The vastest study in the world, that which is most closely bound up with the most sacred interests of humanity—History."
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Vocabulary lists containing vast
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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