Sentence examples for desolate expanses from inspiring English sources
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.
The polar bear travels long distances over vast desolate expanses, generally on drifting oceanic ice floes, searching for seals, its primary prey.
They crossed low over desolate expanses of cactus and mesquite, which threatened shins full of thorns for any pilot forced into an early landing.
We slowed down to the speed of a funeral cortege to stare at the desolate expanses of closed down factories and depots.
For example, small numbers of American Green Berets are training African armies to guard their borders and patrol vast, desolate expanses against infiltration by Al Qaeda's militants, so the United States does not have to.
During the desolate expanse of the C-minor Suite, I was distracted by thoughts about the passage of time.
It is a desolate expanse of bunkers and hangars surrounded by barbed wire and battered look-out posts.
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.
The nearest host city — Yekaterinburg — is some 2,200 miles away by road, or two days by train across the desolate expanse of Siberia and through the towering Ural Mountains.
