Sentence examples for down vast from inspiring English sources

Still, when the winds died down, vast stretches of the city had succumbed to the flames.

Roaming up and down vast aisles of workstations, they show off their latest demos like proud parents.

Her ancestors had farmed sugar cane and had cut down vast numbers of swamp cypress to build cabinets and coffins.

A legal wrangle over the movie version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" led him preëmptively to turn down vast sums in rights fees for further adaptations.

His little plastic boat was expected to plunge straight through huge rapids and plummet down vast waterfalls, while he had no more protection in his cockpit than the deck, a drysuit, a helmet and a paddle.

"The person in charge of budgets is set against it". Not all the designers are hunting down vast trees from around the continent, instead cutting their carbon footprint with UK-grown, eco-friendly trees.

His decline was long: he would travel the country lecturing laconically and downing vast amounts of alcohol, revelling in his image as an outsider rejected by the climbing establishment both new and old.

We settle down on vast sofas.

One detailed diagram, drawn up by the Sadrist strategists, broke down a vast slum by precinct.

By Easter 1794, the same revolution that once proclaimed freedom of conscience had forcedly closed down the vast majority of France's 40,000 churches.

On the wharf in the cartoonishly beautiful Queenstown, on New Zealand's South Island, it looks out down the vast, chilly waters of Lake Wakatipu.