Sentence examples for a narrow expanse from inspiring English sources
This photo of a worker walking on a narrow expanse, hundreds of feet above a frozen lake in the bitter winds of winter, might bring on an involuntary shudder -- it looks treacherous and so, so cold.
Even their limited flying abilities would allow turkeys to cross the narrow expanse of the Harlem River from the Bronx, find their way to the Hudson and migrate down its shoreline, he said.
A narrow 30-acre expanse on a steep cliff of Manhattan schist, the park is named for its sunrise views.
While the majority (~70%) of the Australian continent is covered by arid or semi-arid vegetation, eastern Australia provides a narrow, but largely continuous expanse of habitat for mesic-adapted species [ 1, 3, 4].
The northern border with Asia posed a different problem for geographers because, as knowledge of and self-consciousness in that part of the world increased, it turned out that "Europe" was not connected to Asia via a narrow isthmus, but rather via the widening expanse of Russia.
We turned onto a narrow rutted road, which ended in a blinding expanse of white.
The photographs of the crime scene a century ago show not a dramatically empty glass case, as one would nowadays see, or even a large expanse of bare wall, but a narrow gap between the Titians and Correggios – something more like a missing tooth.
His entourage heads for the bar, bypassing an expanse of empty tables, to climb up to a narrow platform surrounded by a metal fence.
We were on a narrow dirt road on the periphery of the Nevada Test and Training Range, or N.T.T.R., an expanse of restricted land that is home to many classified aircraft and electronic-warfare simulations.
One patient may be unable to go forward if he has to pass through a narrow door, and another may not be able to do so if he has to go into a wide expanse such as a field.
