Sentence examples for expanse in which from inspiring English sources

Partly because "jungles are very boring to shoot in," as he put it, Mr. Jonze envisioned the world of the creatures as a "geologically wild" expanse in which forests abut sand dunes that lead to rocky beaches.

That story, of course, was mirrored by the wipeout of Labour south of the fabled line from the Severn to the Wash, and a blue expanse in which nervous MPs will now defend the electoral ramparts without councillors to help them.

Dessner's production is meticulous, and allows for expanses in which a note or an idea can properly linger.

It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended".

… Then, when we rise again so as to come back to life anew and face one another, this becomes a matter of, as Dōgen puts it: thus am I; thus are you" (Ueda 1991, 67; see USS X, 107ff).. Open to others, and to the hollow-expanse in which together we dwell, I am I (USS X, 23 24).

Brazil and Argentina had proposed the creation of a Southern Atlantic Whale Sanctuary, a vast expanse of ocean in which commercial whaling would be prohibited.

In the "Travel" essay, he describes the sea as "this boundless expanse of prohibition," in which man cannot live.

From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive.

The park was then -- this was the 40's and 50's -- an open expanse of green in which we walked and rode our bikes daily, clambered over the rocky embankments of the Bronx River, and in the goodness of time defended our virginity in all weathers and every season.

In the Inland Empire, real estate developers found a seemingly endless expanse of emptiness in which to reconstruct the California Dream whose façade had been stripped bare in L.A. by the polarization of endemic poverty and opulent wealth, crime rates, gang culture, failing public schools, and numerous other indices of a fading future for the urban middle class.

The expanses of time in which there was this grandfather appeared endless when I was in them.