vast

Example Sentences

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That reputation took a severe hit this year when Hurricane Melissa tore through the province, destroying vast areas of crops.

From Salon

Five years after becoming Africa's first Covid-era debt defaulter, Zambia is seeing a dramatic turnaround in fortunes as major powers vie for access to its vast reserves of copper.

From Barron's

The vast majority of people in the middle of the debate were silent while the "people at the extremes" and rhetoric in the media had been "frightening for young people", the clinician said.

From BBC

Supercomputers used across the nuclear weapons complex consume vast amounts of electricity to simulate the physics of nuclear systems and other high stakes scenarios.

From Science Daily

Its stockholdings are vast, it has plenty of cash and it can get liquidity support from the People’s Bank of China, the official said.

From The Wall Street Journal