Sentence examples for expanses are from inspiring English sources

Russia's vast expanses are impassable for literature.

Or that the steel mullions framing the large window expanses are H-shaped.

Its wide expanses are used as meeting sites twice a year by enthusiasts of orienteering, a sport that hones navigational skills through the use of map and compass.

Its vast expanses are relentlessly being tamed and subdivided into plots for family homes, as couples seek inexpensive property and good schools near the city.

The three-story building is in the form of a quadrangle: the powerful square expanses are united with one another at their corners by wide three-storied galleries in which antechambers and living quarters were located.

Created by the minimalist designer Jennifer Post, who has made similarly strict white interiors for Matt Lauer and Jennifer Lopez, its glossy expanses are the result of a yearlong renovation that cost almost as much as the purchase price of $575,000 for the one-bedroom at 39th Street and Park Avenue.

Indeed such raw expanses were a frequent sore point with writers.

And it makes sense: nature, with all its empty, otherworldly expanses, is the constant, hulking neighbor to Los Angeles.

The physical isolation of the region's raw, immense expanses is literally awesome, but indifferent and humbling as well.

And he surmised that another term, "the Camp," used to describe the archipelago's barren expanses, is derived from the Spanish word "campo," for countryside.

The continent's far expanses were so unknown to its white explorers that Thomas Jefferson, who commissioned the journey, thought that the men would come across woolly mammoths.