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Example sentences for: expanse

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Lake Tai (Taihu), a vast freshwater expanse boasting 72 islets, is the most celebrated lake in Chinese legend.
It brought to minds a phrase from Milton “seaweed their pasture” ( Paradise Lost , vii, 404), except that Emory meant the wide expanse of tidal grass just up from the beach and inundated twice daily.
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.
This vast expanse did not exist during the time of the emperors, but in the 20th century it became China’s primary public meeting place for national ceremonies and political demonstrations.
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.