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Example sentences for "wide expanse"

  • Burnes went in a boat to the ruins of Sindree, where a single remaining tower was seen in the midst of a wide expanse of sea.

  • To return to the state of the earth after the changes above supposed, we must not omit to dwell on the important effects to which a wide expanse of perpetual snow would give rise.

  • A wide expanse of ocean, interspersed with islands, seems to have pervaded the northern hemisphere at the periods when the Silurian and carboniferous rocks were formed, and a warm and very uniform temperature then prevailed.

  • Y: Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, P: Have We not made the earth an expanse, S: Have We not made the earth an even expanse?

  • Belvoir (pronounced Beever) Castle stands on the eastern border of Leicestershire, in a magnificent situation on a high wooded hill, and gets its name from the beautiful view its occupants enjoy over a wide expanse of country.

  • The noted Bolsover Castle, which Bess also built, though her son finished it after her death, stands in a magnificent position on a high plateau not far from Chesterfield, overlooking a wide expanse of Derbyshire.

  • There is a wide expanse of bog, relieved by some grass-grown railway side-tracks and the forlorn freight-depot of the Wisconsin Central road.

  • The one is volcanic, the other coralline; but both are surrounded by a wide expanse of ocean of enormous depth, the one being about as far from Europe as the other is from America.

  • Reptiles, however, which at first sight appear as unsuited as mammals to pass over a wide expanse of ocean, abound in the Galapagos, though the species are not very numerous.

  • Happy the foot that can roam over a wide expanse of property--happy the head which knows how to subject the forces of ever-fresh nature to an intelligent human will.

  • Both these spots were separated by a wide expanse of sand and heath from any Polish proprietors, Herr von Tarow being the nearest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conscript service; crossing the; fruitful field; maiden name; mother says; nearly circular; organic remains; plane surfaces; weigh anchor; wide awake; wide berth; wide circle; wide circuit; wide detour; wide enough; wide fame; wide field; wide front; wide geographical; wide reputation; wide space; wide variety; widely different; widely diffused; widely spread; widely used