Sentence examples for expanse around from inspiring English sources

As we watched, 80,000 caribou surged across the vast expanse around us.

He started changing a few areas around campus, replacing the English ivy and leggy boxwoods in front of the admissions building with native azaleas that bloomed at graduation, and filling the sunny expanse around the sports center with swamp mallows and sea oats.

The whole exquisite expanse around it, with its pond and statues and pathways leading to elegant restaurants – and a street of secrets behind – has a 19th-century flavour to it, as if made for providing Baudelaire with his absinthe.

The next time you feel a certain malaise that often accompanies being environmentally aware these days, shut off the device, step outside, find the biggest blue or green expanse around, and jump, hike, or climb in.

At the peak of its power, the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse around the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.

"You don't have to approve of the stuff in these stores to appreciate the power of this culture," he said, pausing at the Fendi store to admire the marble facade, the high ceilings, and the empty expanses around the display cases.

Motioning to the vast expanses around him, he declared, "This is mine".

Various papers have recently demonstrated the competitive advantage conferred by the ability to cache iron, enabling certain bacterial species to dominate areas of the world's oceans that are typically iron-poor, such as in the expanses around the Antarctic [ 42].

The lonely protagonists of his drawings often contend with huge space-time expanses all around.

"A lot of local residents don't see themselves in conjunction with our programming," said Mike Madell, the supervisor of the park, a grassy and monument-dotted 1,800-acre expanse that wraps around the northeastern corner of the city.

The coastguard, Massachusetts police and the air force concentrated their search yesterday on a 550 square mile expanse of sea, around a rocky outcrop called No Man's Island, about 12 miles west of Martha's Vineyard, off the Massachusetts coast.