Sentence examples for expanse on from inspiring English sources

While other African colonies threw off occupiers one by one, this desert expanse on the continent's north-western coast remains a disputed territory controlled primarily by next-door Morocco and locked in a nearly 40 year struggle for the right to choose its fate.

In an agreement made final on Wednesday, the city will pay the Garden School $6 million for the land, nearly 30,000 square feet of open space that will be conjoined to one of the area's few parks, Travers Park, a largely concrete expanse on 78th Street.

Here was an enormous expanse on the map but a small black hot place in reality.

I was sitting outside the green expanse, on a bench, with a container of unwashed blueberries.

Later that day, Osama took me to Benghazi's main cemetery, a vast, dusty expanse on the western edge of town.

A narrow 30-acre expanse on a steep cliff of Manhattan schist, the park is named for its sunrise views.

Staring into the vast expanse of hot, on-trend, and overwhelmingly white twentysomethings, I wondered if I was secretly being filmed for an American Apparel commercial.

A pal, the cinematographer Charles Houston, who has worked on Spike Lee's movies, will make a portrait to hang on a bare expanse of wall on the third floor.

It's gorgeous with the Adirondacks to one side, the Green Mountains on the other and an expanse of lake on three sides of the property.

Across the great expanse of Russia — on plots cleared of birch groves and decrepit factories, on the territory of old airports and collective farms — big-box stores are rising at a rate of several a month.

All this because we seem to ignore the great expanse of water on which we depend.