How to Use expanse in a Sentence
expanse
noun- The explorer gazed across the vast Arctic expanse.
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The reflections of the town’s palm trees now shimmer across the expanse of a new lagoon, framed by steep sand dunes.
— Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Yet even Thomas couldn’t believe how her companions followed the hyena across an expanse of bare rock.
— Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 -
EarthSky recommends watching from a spot that will still give you a wide expanse of sky, but blocks out the moonlight.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024 -
The region of western Ohio is a vast expanse of farms interrupted only by the occasional water tower or patch of trees.
— Patrick Cooley, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022 -
Instead, comets, asteroids, moons or anything else floating in the vast expanses of space can simply be harvested for their metal contents to be used as fuel.
— New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2024 -
The new image—which mission scientists called one of the deepest images of the universe ever taken—shows stars and thousands of galaxies strewn across a vast expanse of the cosmos.
— Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 8 July 2022 -
These creatures thrive in environments where most life forms would perish, from the deepest ocean trenches and the highest mountain peaks to the frozen expanse of Antarctica.
— Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 -
The most accessible of the 17 national parks in the vast expanse of the Last Frontier is no less spectacular than the others.
— Fox News, 29 June 2022 -
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 -
The new purchase raises the refuge's expanse to over 2,570 acres of riverfront and lake plain prairie.
— Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Yet came the day the trees broke, the corridor ended, and I was thrust upon the rocky expanse that was the Great Dark.
— Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
For now, the land remains an open expanse of the Colorado Desert, where coyotes and bighorn sheep roam.
— Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022 -
An expanse of landscaped wall shelters the site from the curb and adds a veil of privacy.
— Lauren Beale, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022 -
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 jetty is a 1,500-foot earthwork coil of basalt rock and mud that sprawls into the mirror-like expanse of the Great Salt Lake.
— Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2024 -
As the trailer begins, a vast expanse of rubbish litters the frame.
— Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
At the winery’s tasting room, visitors can choose to sit inside or outside, overlooking the vast expanse of rolling greenery.
— Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2024
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