Sentence examples for sweeping plains from inspiring English sources
Spectacular new photos of Pluto have revealed "majestic" icy mountains, sweeping plains and a low-lying haze over the distant dwarf planet.
But it's also a game of sweeping plains and dusty roads, in which you'll spend lots of the time holding down the sprint button, your mind galloping ahead to your next objective.
Those sweeping plains, especially in the country's centre, will become much hotter and their soil will degrade.The report, released last week, is Australia's most comprehensive yet.
No wonder that for the homesick poet, Dorothea Mackellar, her homeland was "a sunburnt country,/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains".
We don't share in the "boundless plains", we have not enjoyed the "wealth for toil", the sweeping plains and rugged mountains ranges of a sunburnt country were too often places of death for us on the Australian frontier.
It also lacks the big draws of its neighbours - it may have sandy beaches but it doesn't have a coastline, the Big Five or sweeping plains or vast dunes.
At board meetings, the little machines click away, and all the surrounding scene - the wild ocean, the fossil deposits, the sweeping plain, the winter rain, perhaps even the future pattern of Australia itself is reduced to a set of manageable digits.
The name is a slippery thing, and the ambiguity around it leads him to unearth the history of a long-forgotten village in southeast Cuba called Pata de Puerco, "a small corner of a sweeping plain with a few scattered shacks between the Sierra Maestra mountains of Santiago de Cuba and the copper mines of El Cobre".
About 2,000 people live in small mud huts surrounded by sweeping, treeless plains.
This four-and-a-half hour journey traverses the sweeping Canterbury Plains, a patchwork of multi-coloured fields that is the largest area of flat land in the country.
Where else can one stand on a hill, eyes sweeping across plains to distant snow ranges in all directions, and know that no other humans are there for mile after mile?
