vastness

Example Sentences

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On the day I visited in early June, before it opened to the public, I was the only person there, making its vastness even more pronounced.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Simon Featherstone, co-chair of the Otford Society, said the project was designed to allow visitors to "visualise the sheer vastness of our solar system".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

As the smooth highway north of Seville stretched into the vastness of pastoral Extremadura, the chances of finding a lynx, which remains rarer than the snow leopard or the Bengal tiger, felt impossibly small.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

I begin to weary of the vastness, the endlessness of this place.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins