Example sentences for: expanse

How can you use “expanse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For centuries this was a farming village, separated from the city by the green expanse of Corstorphine Hill.

  • It is here that the flowers and greenery of Victoria begin their most delightful assault, in Beacon Hill Park, an expanse of gently rolling flower-bordered lawns and groves of cedar and oak sloping down to the Pacific Ocean.

  • The finest beach is at the very northern tip of the island — Cape Santa Maria (named by Columbus after his own ship) is a vast empty expanse of yellow sand and blue sea.

  • The Olympic Peninsula sits perched on the northwest corner of Washington like a small state, an expanse of mountains, rivers, and coastlines wrapped by an arm of the Pacific and separated from the urban swath of Greater Seattle by the inland sea of Puget Sound.

  • The desert is no monotonous expanse of sand dunes, but a beautiful, variegated land full of color and space.


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