Sentence examples for sweep of land from inspiring English sources

The latest fight is over a 23.4m-acre sweep of land called the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

Among the strongest and most persistent alternative theories to the Warren Commission report has been the involvement of a second gunman on a sweep of land above the motorcade route that came to be known as the grassy knoll.

But as the largest developable plot on Long Island, this shapeless sweep of land has become a 2,913-acre 2,913-acresplotch in which eveRorschachsplotchutine, politician and local resident seems to have imagined a different picture.

Washington is not alone: the fisheries agency says that it may give 13 different salmon species endangered status in a broad sweep of land from central California to the borders of British Columbia, potentially the most extensive ESA listing in the 20-year history of the act.

And with the site virtually cleared, some officials are speaking of bold strokes and grand opportunities in describing a vision for a new downtown, a sweep of land that, from this ambitious perspective, starts at Chambers Street and extends south to the tip of Manhattan Island and from river to river.

Look out to the coast from downtown and you'll be greeted by the spectacle of a vast sweep of land being reclaimed from the sea, to build a dramatic new peninsula.

And he loved the sweep of the land to the water.

And "Icebergs, Greenland" (1932-33) makes brilliant theater of a sweep of thawed land and rocks presided over by a cluster of frosty ice formations, against a sky whose nuanced white clouds echo the icy shapes.

He strolled the rooms and the property here without any sense of hurry to get or be anywhere else, dwelling on the grand vistas and small details that had given him such pleasure, from the savanna-like sweep of the land to the oil painting above the fireplace.

In "Solar Road," a vast, lonely sweep of flat land is crossed by a road whose single streetlight cuts a dramatic swath, revealing salt flats in the distance and a glimmer of city lights at the far right -- it's a photograph that makes a landscape into a spectacular stage.

Ward, inspired by the intros to The Simpsons and Pee-wee's Playhouse developed a new intro that would feature a panning sweep of the Land of Ooo, all the while, a synthesizer note would slowly rise until the main theme enters.