Sentence examples for expanses one from inspiring English sources

Finite bodies, according to Epicurus, had to be composed of smaller expanses, and if there were no lower limit in size to such expanses, one would have to imagine traversing such a body in an infinite number of moves — but then, however small these infinitesimals might be, the object that contained them, Epicurus reasoned, would have to be infinitely large (LH 56 57).

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.

Their eighth-floor apartment looks out over the mostly low-rise surrounding neighbourhood, where the "verticalisation" process that has made São Paulo an archetypal concrete jungle is very evident, but where there are still vast expanses of one- and two-storey houses lining the long, quiet streets.

From the top-floor windows, you can see distant volcanos and the grey expanse of one of the planet's greatest and thirstiest urban sprawls.

You cannot simply shift a load of television actors onto a movie screen and expect them to command its greater expanse; only one in a thousand will be able to summon that mysterious confluence of presence and reserve on which stardom relies — the will both to offer oneself to the camera and yet to keep back the hidden, unguessable sources of that self.

Bakersfield is a part of California's Central Valley, or what many know as the brown-beige expanse that one must drive through to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Waterfront Park's slender frame in downtown San Diego is flanked by the glittering expanse of the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Diego's historic City Administration building on the other.

Running along the curving promenade with the shimmering expanse of the Arabian Sea on one side and the red sun rising above the waking city on the other was simply spectacular.

Suited, booted, with arms folded and perched on one end of the bench, an expanse of evening air separates Peter Reid from his colleagues.

Because too much focus on one individual, however misogynistic and foul their act is, is ignoring the dark expanse of iceberg beneath the water's surface.

The response from officials was enthusiastic, but one expanse of glass in the new design became a source of contention.