EXPANSE in a Sentence

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68 example sentences for EXPANSE, such as:

1. Heat causes the expansion of gases.
2. We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.
3. She gazed at the immense expanse of the sea.
4. They have played an expansive style of rugby.
5. Over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPANSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expanse
 n.  patch; wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  Others, again, while this was in progress, lifted their eyes and swept the vast expanse of country commanded by their position, now lying nearly obliterated by shade.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
2  He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
3  To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
4  Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
5  Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
6  The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
7  Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
8  Vaguely I could discern the black bank of the trees and the lighter expanse of the moor, for the moon was behind the clouds.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  Over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
10  "Check number one," said Holmes, looking gloomily over the rolling expanse of the moor.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
11  I fell upon my face among some bushes, but Holmes had me on my feet in an instant, and together we dashed away across the huge expanse of Hampstead Heath.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
12  The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks, highly polished.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
14  There were fringes of ice along the sea margin, with drifting masses further out; but the main expanse of that salt ocean, all bloody under the eternal sunset, was still unfrozen.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
15  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The tourists gazed with awe at the tremendous expanse of the Grand Canyon.
2  The line of vision from the flight deck towards the horizon will actually portray a white even expanse which is uniformly level.
3  We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.
4  She gazed at the immense expanse of the sea.
5  With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.
6  She opened her arms wide in an expansive gesture of welcome.
7  They have played an expansive style of rugby.
8  We need to look at a more expansive definition of the term.
9  He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
10  I thought of the life that lay before me -- _your_ life, sir -- an existence more expansive and stirring than my own: as much more so as the depths of the sea to which the brook runs are than the shallows of its own strait channel.
11  Various problems have put the company's expansion plans into reverse.
12  The rapid expansion of cities can cause social and economic problems.
13  The time has come for the firm to consolidate after several years of rapid expansion.
14  We expect a successful acquisition to provide a basis for the global expansion of our services in a full-fledged manner.
15  Heat causes the expansion of gases.