Sentence examples for huge empty expanse from inspiring English sources

We often stared at maps together, and I'd wonder about the huge, empty expanse of Mauritania west of Niger.

His words, wistful and elliptical, evoke a struggle toward a vast, empty expanse.

It is sparsely populated, with vast empty expanses broken by the occasional ranch or rail yard.

This was September, when the summer heat had started to ease and the 27 miles of sugar-white sands were vast, empty expanses.

Consequently, the jet could only fly over vast, empty expanses of water.

Some figures appear to levitate; others seem bodiless, their cloaks encompassing an empty expanse with their heads floating above.

When I climbed underneath its edge, all I could see was a dim, empty expanse of scaffolding.

It was once an empty expanse with a large ravine, but in recent decades the city filled it in.

When the listener focusses intently, wisps of sound can become expressive characters, silhouetted against an empty expanse.

In ancient Roman architecture the pilaster gradually became more and more decorative rather than structural, as it served to break up an otherwise empty expanse of wall.

Suddenly the empty expanse of browning grass and thorny bushes gave way to a bustling temporary town of gaudy cloth tents, grass mats and cattle.