Sentence examples for Vast band from inspiring English sources

With the Chukchi and Sami peoples we are less familiar, as we are with the "taiga": the vast band of pine forest reaching across the extreme north of Europe and Russia.

Surrounded by the white domes of stellar observatories, we gazed out on a carpet of clouds below us, and once again the sun turned the sky crimson before disappearing, revealing the vast band of the Milky Way encircling us.

As a result, most residents live in a vast band of "sleeper" neighbourhoods and have to travel through the "grey zone" of under-utilised factories to reach their jobs in the centre, leading to congestion in the underground and on the streets.

Before being delivered to (or sent out of) an urban area, a product will very likely pass through a warehouse, a parcel carrier terminal, or an intermodal yard, in short, a network node where goods will be transferred from one vehicle to another and are often stored, processed, or repackaged.3 Thus, a vast band of logistics facilities surrounds cities, especially the largest ones.

But the challenges of feeding a vast band of escaped slaves, attempting to defeat the Romans and trying to keep order within his fraying band of brothers and sisters has taken its toll on Spartacus.

Some mineral deposits like vast banded iron formations from ancient times cannot form today, because the oxygen in today's atmosphere and oceans now prevents iron from dissolving.

These form vast hopper bands that move in waves along the desert floor.

But a characteristic one might suggest a vast rock'n'roll band, a Moroccan Gnawa street-ensemble, a symphonic band playing a hoe-down on Stravinsky, a free-jazz group, a jostling crowd of Dixieland parade-stompers, or a scholarly Schoenbergian tone-row outfit unhinged by an inhibition-loosening something in their drinks.

You can see its offspring, in steel and on a vast scale, in "Band".

The space in between is vast, and no band understood how to fill it like Animal Collective, the Friday night headliner.

Dressed in fire-engine red and arrayed across two levels, a vast and gifted band helps urban music's two most enduringly dominant male stars steam through almost 40 hits in two and a half hours.