How to Use expanse in a Sentence

expanse

noun

• The explorer gazed across the vast Arctic expanse.
• For others, open roads and wide expanses of nature are preferred.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• Arizona's dry climate and vast expanses of desert terrain create suitable habitats for these arachnids.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
• The expanse of the pool makes up the view from the rest of the kitchen and dining area.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Being in the midst of one of the great, dry expanses of the world has me in a mood.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The main kitchen looks out over the deck and pool and beyond, to the vast expanse of sea and sky.
  — David Sokol, ELLE Decor, 6 Oct. 2022
• When a long, strange trip it’s been… and in the vast expanse of Sphere, now, what a long, tall and wide trip.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2024
• And that expanse of blue — blue sky, blue water — soothes the brain.
  — Kate Cohen, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
• The best aspect of the space — its sprawling and plant-filled expanse under the open sun — has not changed.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
• The piece as a whole feels like a kind of ark or boat that travels through your mind in its own expanse of blue.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Almost silent, the chime rings like a tiny triangle off in the expanse.
  — Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Molli couldn’t drive across the wide expanse of West Texas, but there’s a resource for that, too.
  — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• The view from its front, where the attack occurred, is an endless expanse of frozen snow and ice to the horizon.
  — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
• And now, within the limitless expanse of the Spider-Verse, there’s room for all of us.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
• To reach the minerals here would require a 211-mile road through the heart of this Arctic expanse.
  — Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• Some might look at the curved expanses of the body and see a cosmic butterfly.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• The paint on one side of the front plate was missing entirely, leaving an expanse of naked tin.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Spotting a small spacecraft like Odysseus against the wide expanse of the moon is an impressive feat.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Sisi has blanched at suggestions that Gazans should find a new home in the vast desert expanse of the Sinai Peninsula.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• So the treetop walkway looks out on an expanse of empty dirt.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The view out of her chalet window has always been more or less the same -- wide expanse of mountains, hills and chalets, all capped in frothy, thick snow.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• The taxi’s meter ticked upward, and expanses of dusty land rose and fell on either side of us.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Just north of Flathead Lake in the town of Kalispell, five large grain silos glow a faint shade of orange against the dark-blue expanse of the Montana sky.
  — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• The vast, verdant lawn is now an expanse of dirt, Ba too tired and distracted to maintain it.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• Within three hours the field beyond her window was an expanse of frozen fluff.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• One of the best ways to appreciate the uniqueness of the stone is to have a large expanse of it to enjoy the beautiful veining.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2023
• What once was the city dump is now a sandy expanse with an accessible ramp, seating wall and grassy area.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
• The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus spreads out below Cassini in this mosaic view of Saturn’s moon Tethys.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
• The bright blue water draws surfers, swimmers, and snorkelers to its crystalline expanse.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
• Driving in from Wyoming for the first time, he was struck by the overwhelming desert expanse that surrounded Phoenix.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024