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Example sentences for: expanse

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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 rest of the island’s beach is a long, uninterrupted expanse, backed by attractive but slightly featureless dunes.
Given what little I'd seen and heard about New York on TV and in magazines, newspapers, and movies before I came, I expected a bland expanse of people and places largely indistinguishable from one other.
After years of hiding the river behind a bleak expanse of warehouses, factories, and railway tracks, Montréal has opened up its waterfront, more recently with the music festivals and flea market of the Vieux Port, but largely at the earlier instigation of that much maligned Mayor Drapeau.
The desert is no monotonous expanse of sand dunes, but a beautiful, variegated land full of color and space.