Sentence examples for an empty expanse of from inspiring English sources

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.

The congresswoman spoke at a lectern in a smart dress, blazer and houndstooth-patterned pumps, in the centre of an empty expanse of crusty black dust and pools of filthy water.

A simple sketch by the 9-year-old Hopper on a penny postcard shows the back view of a boy, alone and staring from a beach at an empty expanse of water.

Another, less costly option is the construction of two entirely new buildings, a six-story structure on an empty expanse of the North Lawn, below East 48th Street, and a four-story building off site.

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.

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

The target in question is the nearly 1,700 mile-long wall that separates the Moroccan-administered part of Western Sahara from the Polisario-run "liberated territories," a mostly empty expanse of desert, where this exercise is taking place.

The outpost in question is the 1,677 miles-long wall that separates the Moroccan-administered part of Western Sahara from the Polisario-run "liberated territories," a mostly empty expanse of desert, where this exercise is taking place.