Sentence examples for this great expanse from inspiring English sources

Some of history's greatest conquerors swept through this great expanse, among them Darius, Tamerlane, Hannibal and Saladin.

"Of this great expanse, only the area equivalent to a few football fields has been sampled biologically," according to the team conducting the deep sea project for the Census of Marine Life.

What did you think of standing beneath your own tree?" "I looked around the landscape, to the far horizon in each direction, and I tried to think how I would write about the great expanse of this place...about how I could relay the feeling of being here, standing here, out in the open plain, with the savannah all around.

All this because we seem to ignore the great expanse of water on which we depend.

Taking to the sands along the great expanse of the beach, this wonderful run can either be returned the same way, along the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path or, as described below, via a lovely and varied route through Wells and the Holkham Estate.

Look at the great expanse of red, full of Americans who did not vote for this political magician; consider what their response will be to the president-elect's pledge to reverse a raft of George W. Bush's executive orders covering stem cell research, climate change and other hair-trigger issues.

I stood and surveyed the great expanse of nothingness.

Behind us we can look back and see the great expanse of American achievement.

For the first time, the great expanse of the King's Cross stage is galvanised.

These are genuine hurdles, and safeguarding the great expanse of the Atlantic coast is a much more expensive proposition than defending Holland's smaller one.

The world's sixth largest river in terms of discharge, the Yenisey runs from south to north across the great expanse of central Siberia.