Sentence examples for expanse about from inspiring English sources

McConnell was referring, in part, to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a mountainous expanse about the size of Massachusetts.

Those groups had overrun northern Mali — a desert expanse about the size of France — last year, imposing a violent and repressive iteration of Islamic law on local populations.

FILADELFIA, Paraguay — The Chaco thorn forest, a domain with 118-degree temperatures so forbidding that Paraguayans call it their "green hell," covers an expanse about the size of Poland.

But sometime soon, this flat-on-flat expanse — about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco — may well be home to a first-in-the-nation destination as the initial northern terminus of California's ambitious high-speed rail network.

We would be talking about hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and specialists, about a gigantic splash of energy from a new generation of Europeans onto huge, and thus far poorly developed, expanses, about joint work, about a new Europe — from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific.

The natural flow of water would be restored, and the expanse of about 292 square miles would add about a million acre-feet of water storage.

Patton chose a expanse of desert area about 50 mile southeast of Palm Springs.

Despite being strong in the water, I had three neuroses about diving: agoraphobia about the vast open expanses, claustrophobia about poor visibility, and acrophobia, fear of the drops.

Paris, Manhattan and Central Tokyo have daytime populations of about three million on expanses of about 25 square miles, he noted.

He wrote constantly, though, and with great catholic expanse, not only about the Kennedy campaign but also about moon shots, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, the war in Vietnam, the battle of the sexes, the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago and, later, the C.I.A., Picasso, Hitler and God.

The place is all about expanse: earth and sky in endless projection.