expanse
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An expanse of US maritime territory near American Samoa in the South Pacific could be auctioned as soon as November, according to official documents.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Savannah looked out the airplane window as she passed over the desert expanse, where she feared her mother had been abandoned without ceremony or her family’s prayers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Julia Dawber's home overlooks an expanse of scenic coastline, and she says as many as nine campervans can park up near the shore at any one time.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Signs on either side warn — ominously, given the unforgiving expanse ahead — that once you’ve left, the nearest gas station is not for another 100 miles or so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Before I scrambled down, unused rifle on my back, I sought out Rose, spying her and Wab embracing in the dirt expanse between the woods and the road.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
"What makes this pattern so fascinating is that evolution keeps arriving at similar cooperative solutions in very different groups and across vast expanses of time," says Dorus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Once master of vast expanses of northern, central and western Africa, France has played a crucial role in the continent's post‑colonial history, repeatedly intervening militarily since the early 1960s.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
New Yorkers take part in a snowball fight in Brooklyn's McCarren Park, as a major winter storm sweeps through vast expanses of the United States.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Photos shared by the agency on social media showed the snow-lined highway littered with boulders and debris and expanses of it buckled and broken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Now, along the lonely expanses of wiry turf, the air wavered.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing expanse
The Giver
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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