Sentence examples for smaller expanses 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).

An orange tabby fond of a yellow cornfield was driven 700 miles in a red car to a blue state with smaller expanses of green.

There is a small expanse of bank near the parking lot, which is penetrable by foot.

Cons Because of the expanse of the lakes, roads are circuitous, and sometimes getting across what seems like a small expanse of water requires many miles of driving.

Indeed, 18th-century political thought warned that a republic could actually function only in a small expanse of territory (the size of one or two of the 13 states, say).

The following year she took on the walled garden, replacing the circle of flowers with a small expanse of open grass encircled by a 12-foot-deep ring of flowers.

A small expanse of grass, a built-in sitting area and a mix of cacti, palms and other drought-tolerant landscaping complete the grounds.

This may have been due to the slightly smaller chest expanse of the average Asian compared to their Caucasian counterpart.

Results have showed that despite of long-term soil and water conservation programs, except small patches, vast expanses of the watershed have showed decrease in vegetation regeneration and primary productivity trend.

Typically, in subjects > 55 years old, a combination of both small and large expanses of intact ependymal cell coverage (Fig. 1E,F) and large areas devoid of ependymal cells were detected.

Monday's attendance was announced as 46,426, but the audience seemed much smaller and the biggest expanses of empty seats were the expensive ones, low near the infield, where the costliest prices have been reduced from $2,500 a game to $1,250.