Sentence examples for immense stretch from inspiring English sources

Hitler's greatest strategic disadvantage in opposing the Allies' imminent reentry into Europe lay in the immense stretch of Germany's conquests, from the west coast of France to the east coast of Greece.

Organized by June Yap, an independent curator from Singapore, with help from Helen Hsu and Alexandra Munroe of the Guggenheim, it's a smallish show of 22 artists and collectives, but it takes in an immense stretch of turf — the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

In a memoir of his 1930s Potteries childhood, The Vanished Landscape, historian Paul Johnson describes his father taking him to see the Sytch in Burslem, an immense stretch of ground composed of clay, black water, mud, industrial detritus and "fumigerous furnaces belching forth fire, ashes and smoke".

The sky was immense, stretched, like it had been distorted though a fisheye lens.

This skittering, hectic world is interrupted by immense stretches of exquisite ennui - languor and longueur combined.

It's a peculiarly beautiful day, overcast yet utterly calm: immense stretches of pearl-grey ocean, its texture like oil, like silk, like ice cream.

The thin upper layers are made of thousands of tiny sea creatures deposited as, over immense stretches of time, the sea rose to overwhelm the land beneath.

From this new frontier, scholars think, the ancient navigators perfected the double-hull outrigger sailing canoe and set out on their final expansion, venturing over even more immense stretches of open sea.

All communities are subject to periodic disturbances, ranging from events that have only localized effects, such as the loss of a tree that creates a gap in the canopy of a forest, to those that have catastrophic consequences, which include wildfires that sweep across vast landscapes or storms that pound immense stretches of shoreline.

One of the first tasks of the project was to clarify and refine what we meant by evolution 'readiness.' From the start we were keenly aware of the difficulty we would face in trying to get ten-year-old children, for whom the time to their next birthday is likely to seem forever, to appreciate the immense stretches of time over which evolutionary processes take place.

The pyramid of Khephren at Giza seen from sky is represented primarily by its immense shadow stretching across the sand, suggesting the cryptic astronomical meanings built into this monument to the dead.