How to Use expanse in a Sentence

expanse

noun
Definition of expansenext
Synonyms for expansenext
  • The explorer gazed across the vast Arctic expanse.
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bright blue water draws surfers, swimmers, and snorkelers to its crystalline expanse.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
  • There Oleshky was, less than ten miles away from her, across an expanse of river and floodwater.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
  • And the longer that sand sits in one place, the more dust that place generates: The world’s great dust generator lies in North Africa: the vast expanses of the Sahara.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
  • The cabin glowed in the mid-day November sun, reflecting the bright blue expanse of cloudless sky above.
    — Lydia Swinscoe, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2024
  • There were many reasons to doubt the full expanse of the testimony by Grusch and others.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Coates sent location scouts searching for large expanses of tarmac that would feature in the lead-up to the launch.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Attached is a spacious dressing room lounge with glossy red walls and an expanse of mirror.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Is there anything quite as majestic as riding a horse through a desert expanse?
    — Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • After a while, the path opens up again, this time facing a near-empty expanse of sandy scrubland, a few windswept shrubs the only shelter.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • Things start to brighten up when the crew gets to Neverland, a vast expanse of verdant hills and glistening, azure sea.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The violence began in neighboring Mali in 2012 but has since spread across the arid expanse of the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • An expanse of green tundra maybe 100 meters long looked as if it had been burned—only there hadn't been any wildfire.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Treat your bookshelf like any normal expanse of wall and hang your beloved art from its cross-sections as M James Design Group did here.
    — Sarah Yang, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
  • For the first time since 2005, a lake — called Lake Manly — has formed in Badwater Basin, an expanse of salt flats within the park that are usually bone-dry.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But what exactly goes on at this idyllic expanse, which has been in the royal family for more than 170 years?
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023

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