Sentence examples similar to dull expanses from inspiring English sources
As I walked back into the corridor, I thought I detected an odd odor — odd, at any rate, for that dull expanse of linoleum and buzzing fluorescent tubes — of the sea: a sharp, salty, briny smell.
While Pluto was once thought to be a singular strange body in an otherwise dull, empty expanse of space, it is now the archetype of what astronomers call the "third zone" of the solar system.
But dull, pancake-flat expanses of plastic just below them mock their highfalutin pretensions.
The expanses of dull vinyl and plastic, the cheap knobs and shifts, the unimaginative layouts are a far cry from the stripped-down masculinity of the original muscle cars.
The Chevy Avalanche wears vast expanses of dull-gray textured plastic, and the Isuzu VehiCross (a transportation device stranger than any Vulcan) seems wrought of little else.
In the absence of a more proactive approach to suburban growth, vast expanses of unsustainable and dull built environments will continue to develop.
The slopes of Donard are an easy walk from Newcastle and some people think it dull compared with the more craggy expanse of Slieve Commedagh alongside.
Apocalypse by tract-home and strip-mall construction is slower and less cataclysmic but it too leaves an amorphous landscape -- one with little notion of up or down, left or right: few landmarks and even fewer regional distinctives, a vast expanse of boxy houses and strip malls to numb our imagination and make our soul dull.
38 min: Dull, dull, dull.
