Sentence examples for its expanses from inspiring English sources

Defied by its greater vastness, we chose to ignore the ocean and fly over its expanses, as though it were a veil drawn over our sins.

It quickly becomes a virtual city-within-a-city, its expanses demarcated into distinct zones of activity, all swarming with operatives.

The interior, with its expanses of unremarkable plastic trim, is a bit disappointing by comparison.

Cimino's wide-open West is a wonder and a snare, blending freedom and cruelty, innocence and ignorance; its expanses seem blood-soaked and death-haunted.

Vacationers have long enjoyed the pleasures of the Baltic coast, but in the early 21st century its expanses of white sand beaches and quaint seaside towns grew increasingly popular with tourists.

The add-on structure that rose out of Carol's back-yard mud pit, weekend by weekend, over the next nine months, was like a giant utilitarian boat shed with three plain windows punctuating its expanses of vinyl siding.

Ellesmere's physical beauty, its cold, its nontechnical terrain, its isolation, its tolerant wildlife, its 24-hour sunshine, its unwalked expanses, its alien flavor, all felt like a purer form of my own inner geography".

Play Magazine appreciated the virtual world that the game offered, describing it as "grandiose in its expanse and artistic rendering".

Those who take the negative side say that Russia has been too big and spread out ever to function properly, that it has been "crippled by its expanse," that much of its land is not worth the trouble, and that Siberia is a road leading nowhere.

The real action, though, isn't on the greens, it's in the 85,000-square-foot clubhouse, with its expanse of glass and pyramid roofs, surrounded by five acres of lakes.

It is not surprising, then, that when the major Indonesian developer Ciputra sought inspiration for what to do with its expanse of land about 15 miles west of downtown Surabaya, it turned to the antithesis of Indonesian cities: the city-state of Singapore.