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.
Biologists typically posit that human ancestors learned to walk on two legs on the savanna's flat expanses.
From Scientific American
But its structure — in which soft expanses of consoling strings are the ground for interjections of somber trumpet and bursts of talkative flute — suggests the flutes are a single many-headed unit.
From New York Times
“So there’s no way to perfectly avoid it, even in an expanse of concrete without a plant in sight.”
From Los Angeles Times
Garden designers with plenty of experience with soils and plant habits might use them in places where they need to cover large expanses of ground, or where the plants can compete with other aggressive species.
From Washington Post
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