Sentence examples for desolate expanse from inspiring English sources

It's a desolate expanse, dotted with boats and huts and a couple of lighthouses, overlooked by Dungeness power station.

Nearly ten years after its launch, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone is still a mostly desolate expanse on the edge of the city.

A festive ceremony to celebrate the deal was held late last month at the desolate expanse of rusting fences and crumbling concrete with stunning, unobstructed river views.

It was 350 miles north-west of Umm Qasr, in the middle of Iraq's western desert, a vast and desolate expanse of sand and scree.

A promising one, they believe, is the sea.The Beijiang Power and Desalination Plant lies a few hundred metres from the coast; its chimney and two cooling towers dominate a desolate expanse of salt farms.

"Please don't call it our Dien Bien Phu," Lieutenant Colonel Simon Winkworth, of the Royal Engineers, requested as we gazed out onto a desolate expanse of scrub and sand on which he was going to build Camp Bastion.

As Stevie knew all too well, even the suburbs come with desolate expanses.

Shot in exquisite color against desolate expanses of coastline and grassland, "Mossane" is nonetheless set in a recognizably contemporary world.

They crossed low over desolate expanses of cactus and mesquite, which threatened shins full of thorns for any pilot forced into an early landing.

The polar bear travels long distances over vast desolate expanses, generally on drifting oceanic ice floes, searching for seals, its primary prey.

We slowed down to the speed of a funeral cortege to stare at the desolate expanses of closed down factories and depots.