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US
/ɪkˈspæns/
]
[ UK /ɛkspˈæns/ ]
[ UK /ɛkspˈæns/ ]
NOUN
- a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
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a wide scope
the sweep of the plains -
the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
it was about 500 square feet in area
the area of a rectangle
How To Use expanse In A Sentence
- The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked.
- The interior is near-perfect, with a high-mounted, smallish dashboard—no vast expanses of plastic here.
- The wide expanse of floor between the two areas was pale, marble patterned tile.
- A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
- The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
- They will also be racing on the wider expanses of a course that offers a much fairer test of ability than the tight turns and short straight at the Valley.
- Her visage set against the wide expanse of the stars like the faded misty memory of a dream.
- exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
- For in opening their lives to the entire expanse of Greco-Arabic and Hebrew learning, the dictionally pure Jewish poets of Cordoba, Granada, and Saragossa carried out an act of profound, if paradoxical, cultural redemption. The Lost Jewish Culture
- The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line