Sentence examples for a common expanse from inspiring English sources

And that, in a very nutty nutshell, was the story of the day: two groups of people, divided by a common expanse of water, united in a common desire to ignore the elements and celebrate the glorious dottiness of being British".

This fractured expanse of civilization now has a common thread in hockey.

From Taos en route to Durango, a common access point to the San Juans, we drove across northern New Mexico, an expanse vast enough that it's a good idea to fill your gas tank before crossing the first mountain pass.

A common example of such artifacts is visible in images with subtle color gradients, such as an expanse of blue depicting a cloudless sky.

The hamlet of Nag's Head was a 16th-century settlement of only a few cottages, annexed to the slightly larger village of Hampton Fields, and that village to the medieval market town of Minchinhampton, with its narrow streets, dearth of commerce, and its common - a broad expanse of meadow on which horses and cows grazed as they did hundreds of years ago.

The lower eastern slopes form Grisedale Common, a large expanse of dwarf shrub heath.

This year, when presented with an idyllic pastoral site on the edge of a rolling expanse of millennium-old common land, fringed by the prospect of dreaming spires poking above the treetops, you might want to think twice before plonking an army of inflated toy-town houses down in the middle of it all.

The most common counsel for those staring at a tiny hole across a vast expanse is to imagine that the hole is surrounded by a much larger circle, perhaps 3 to 4 feet in diameter.

His words, wistful and elliptical, evoke a struggle toward a vast, empty expanse.

He lived in a hilltop home overlooking an expanse of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles.

A group of islands; an expanse of water with scattered islands.