Sentence examples for an empty expanse from inspiring English sources

Some figures appear to levitate; others seem bodiless, their cloaks encompassing an empty expanse with their heads floating above.

It was once an empty expanse with a large ravine, but in recent decades the city filled it in.

When the listener focusses intently, wisps of sound can become expressive characters, silhouetted against an empty expanse.

What was an empty expanse of rust-colored sand just over two years ago is now a town-size industrial plant.

MINOT, N.D. — For a very long time this state was derided as an empty expanse of windswept nothingness where snow stormed in and residents stormed out in predictable abundance.

A recent editorial cartoon in The San Diego Union-Tribune depicted the Islamic center as a giant salt shaker on the "wound" of ground zero, drawn as an empty expanse of earth.

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

In ancient Roman architecture the pilaster gradually became more and more decorative rather than structural, as it served to break up an otherwise empty expanse of wall.

SEA BRIGHT, N.J. — If you find the rare parking spot here, and climb one of the few public stairways over the seawall to a crowded patch of sand, you might notice a nearly empty expanse of beach nearby, beyond a "no trespassing" sign.

A scattering of ice-fishing shacks on pristine snow in Maine, a giant sombrero towering over a tourist trap in South Carolina and an oil derrick unexpectedly protruding from a dry, empty expanse in Oklahoma are some of the other stops on the tour.

When I climbed underneath its edge, all I could see was a dim, empty expanse of scaffolding.