Sentence examples for drab expanses from inspiring English sources
There was a time when the shady patches of America's gardens were virtually a horticultural no-man's land: drab expanses where gardeners planted the laconically blooming hosta and hoped for the best, or just threw up their hands and put in ferns or coleus.
That system now appears to be cracking, and its decomposition is evident in the Tours suburb of La Rabaterie -- a drab expanse of crumbling five-story apartment blocks that make the nearby chateaus of the Loire appear infinitely distant.
Moscow was in the midst of a construction boom, which transformed the capital from a drab, post-Soviet expanse into a sparkly modern city.
Finally Society in Colour (1984-87) is a simultaneously bleak and joyous view of life in Thatcherite Britain, from the seaside sunbathers scrabbling for their hot dogs to the drab colour and cold expanses of a DHSS waiting room.
Silicon Valley's sweeping expanse of drab office parks was never known as a lovers' paradise.
Fans might remember with heavy heart The Invasion of Time from 1975, which realised the Tardis's vast expanses as a series of drab hospital corridors.
Everything, from the cypresses and expanses of grass to the actual buildings and "charming" dirt paths, seemed so terribly unremarkable, disappointing and drab.
On the avenue, on a tarmac expanse in the ground of No 7 stands the Coach House, mock-Tudor timbers adorning a drab concrete box.
