expanse
Example Sentences
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“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal, describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners.
The landscape is flat and barren, a brown expanse of sand dotted with scrubby trees.
From Reuters
Within the vast expanse of Africa, researchers have proposed various places as the birthplace of our species.
From New York Times
At the same time, Black Americans have long embraced the power of the cosmos to liberate the spirit — transforming the empty expanse of space into fertile territory brimming with new possibilities and luminous futures.
From Los Angeles Times
The early Minimalism of Glass is there, too, in the score’s vast expanses of shifting harmonies and repeating rhythms.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
