Sentence examples for expanse of ground from inspiring English sources

The Saint-Gaudens site, a 20-minute drive away, sits atop a lovely, partly forested expanse of ground above the Connecticut River.

Ms. Kenneally, a linguist trained at the University of Cambridge, covers an enormous expanse of ground as she brings the reader up to date on developments in a wide variety of disciplines touching on language evolution.

This work, whose hot-pink sky and lavender snow make you think of Monet, presents the basic elements of Inness's mature art in a slightly crabbed, derivative form: the low, even horizon and flat expanse of ground; the landscape that could be almost anywhere; a roof peak glimpsed through the trees; and small, solitary figures.

Carpiquet airfield was on a 1.2 mile expanse of level ground, which offered a "killing ground" for the defenders.

On an expanse of open ground, beneath huge electricity pylons, vendors sit on mats selling tomatoes, onions or second-hand T-shirts.

Next to one of Juba's bustling markets, a statue of him — a hulking, suited giant with one arm brandishing a stick toward the sky — now towers, lonely, above a vast expanse of parade ground.

The Augustinian abbey, built on the first available expanse of solid ground at the foot of the volcanic crag and tail, was founded in 1128 and rebuilt about 1220.

As this desert is not big enough for the new record attempt it will take place on a larger expanse of flat ground at Hakskeen Pan in South Africa's Northern Cape.

Had he been then in existence, he would have taken another route on the abandonment of his ship, as no one knew better than he the fatal result of an attempt to cross that wide expanse of barren ground lying between the mouth of the Great Fish River and the far-distant Hudson's Bay post on the south side of Great Slave Lake.

That includes one Marine fatally shot and two others wounded in the opening hour of a four-hour clash on Wednesday, when a platoon with Company K of the Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, was ambushed while moving on foot across a barren expanse of flat ground between the clusters of low-slung mud buildings.

This time the Nevada desert will not be big enough, so the attempt will take place over an even larger expanse of flat ground at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape in South Africa, perhaps next year.Bloodhound SSC could reach up to 1,050mph.