expanse
Example Sentences
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Irregular, varied layers of colored dots frame an immense, crusty center expanse with a flourish of widely spaced dots against ocher.
Play long enough, and the speed of the ping pong light ball increases, racing across the expanse until a player can’t keep up.
A year ago, the back lot of Normont Early Education Center was little more than a bare, heat-radiating expanse of asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times
In the nearby town of Banissa, the man-made watering hole that once held 60,000 cubic metres of water is dry, leaving a barren expanse that children have turned into a playground.
From Barron's
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
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