How To Use Expanse In A Sentence
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The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked.
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The interior is near-perfect, with a high-mounted, smallish dashboard—no vast expanses of plastic here.
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The wide expanse of floor between the two areas was pale, marble patterned tile.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Her visage set against the wide expanse of the stars like the faded misty memory of a dream.
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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
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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
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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
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Formerly called the Trust Territory, Micronesia possesses only two-thirds the land area of Rhode Island, yet lies scattered over an expanse of ocean comparable to the contiguous United States.
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In contrast, many pest species are introduced to the region and flourish with the large expanses of a single food source.
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The white expanse would eradicate those seething images, those demons which warred within him.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Huge monochrome landscapes that portray the stretching expanses of the sea that sweeps up the north Norfolk coast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The silence of the night pictures itself before him in the form of an endless expanse of perfectly calm, dark water, which has overflowed everything and congealed; there is not a ripple on it, not a shadow of a motion, and neither is there anything within it, although it is bottomlessly deep.
The Man Who Was Afraid
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Iceland is a land of extremes: milky-blue geothermal waters steaming in vast expanses of hardened lava next to bright green mossy hills and waterfalls.
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The glassy expanse of the curtain wall opens the concourse areas to the sky and the drama of arriving and departing aircraft.
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Ahead of us, and to our left and right, was nothing but a vast, uninterrupted expanse of mown grass stretching into the distance.
Country diary: Wigborough, Somerset
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From Kaiteriteri, cruise the protected waters of the Astrolabe Roadstead past idyllic beaches fringed by lush native forest to the golden expanse of Anchorage Bay (30-45 mins).
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Across the warm, sun-filled expanse of wilderness their eyes met with an impact that held them both motionless.
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But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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That still leaves a vast expanse of ocean unprotected.
Times, Sunday Times
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We gazed out over the limitless expanse of the desert.
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In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants.
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A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday.
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The very expanse of his sentences, their twist and torque, is an American dream of plenitude.
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She realised that now, confronted with this vast expanse of lovely, beautiful space.
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Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast.
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Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour.
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Most anywhere on the long expanse of the north shore side of the Cape which uncovers at low tides to expose sand flats can be productive.
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Nico and Jean will take us on a tour of their facilities showing us the expanse of daffodils, tulips, lilies and delphiniums.
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It's a mean, desert expanse of land.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drilled piles were used to extend the load below the expanse of surface soil.
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The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor.
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The road has a specific morbid relevance to Howie; it's where his mother was killed, and its concrete expanses hold both repulsion and fascination for him.
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She had been climbing up the declivitous trail for hours and had lost her footing more than once, so the safety of a relatively flat expanse was welcome indeed.
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One could excuse them by saying that amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific they did not notice the discrepancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colour glows almost eerily in their luminous expanses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The end goal is a three-bedroom home with straw bale walls and wide expanses of glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive.
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Directly above the bar, it was huge, no walls to encumber the wide expanse of the room.
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Around the large expanse of lawn is a perimeter walk with regular lookout points over the park and the river.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the south the flat expanse of Lake Dokan shone greasily in the low evening light like fish scales.
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Outside, a perfect expanse of grass stretches from fence to fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, a scant two years later, as chaos erupts in that great expanse of geography that once was the Soviet Union, our optimism is at home with a severe autumn cold.
Canada's World Role
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He was slimly built, refreshing after Hub's lardy expanse, with black, curling hair on his chest.
PROSPECT HILL
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Its interior offers a complex expanse of soaring, curved steel beams.
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Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
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A 1,200-square-foot mahogany deck leads to a grassy expanse partially covered by a gunite pool and hot tub.
Hamptons Home Brings Outside In
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After an hour this high ground offers a panoramic view of an unspoilt, uncharted, expanse of wild heath covered moorland stretching out in all directions as far as the eye can see.
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Seeds, when ripened in the fruit, are disseminated, that is to say, scattered on the surface of the ground, to sprout in spots as yet unoccupied and fill the expanses that realize favourable conditions.
The Life of the Spider
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A vast expanse of golden crops lay before us.
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Elephants' footsteps stretch along an expanse of sandy beach then disappear into thick forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the first few miles it was quite wide, and as I kept to the eastern side there was a great expanse of hummocky snow to my right.
The Sky Writer
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The entire section was stripped naked, exposing the ship's innards to the cold expanse of space.
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She looked over the expanse of land
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Around the large expanse of lawn is a perimeter walk with regular lookout points over the park and the river.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within an expanse of yellow benchland pose a handful of figures.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She looked around at the buildings, and the wide expanse of the park before them.
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Add in the vast expanses and icebergs of the Arctic and you have a mix of landscapes that few countries can compete with.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has been pretended that the word rakia may be translated expanse, so as merely to mean empty space.
Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
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They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe.
Finnegans Wake
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But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing.
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You can see it from street level, too, as you emerge from the Waterfront Metro station, a bold expanse of canted glass, supported by inclined wooden columns and capped by a shimmering, white, cloudlike roof.
Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city
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Large expanses of boreal forest and tundra are underlain by permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen soil found underneath the active, seasonally thawed soil.
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So I indicated that my goal henceforth was the space between two prongs of a garden fork, whereas his was the expanse between an apple tree and a pear tree in our fruity back garden.
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It is noticeable across the widest expanse of office floor, and not in a remotely endearing way.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you slip, you go tumbling over the roof into the expanse below.
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We're not exactly genned up on how it all works but when you combine hot weather, big hills and huge expanses of water, then it all adds up to a windsurfer's paradise.
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
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The Dordogne and the Garonne flow north westward, meeting to form the great expanse of the Gironde estuary.
A Back-Label Approach
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Vast expanses of craggy, snow-capped mountains, impressively silhouetted against bright blue skies.
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The sages 'religious-devotion, which is lovely because it overflows with the nectarous waters of the knowledge of truth," and "the lusty undertaking of touching with one's palm that hidden part in the firm laps of lovely-limbed women, loving women with great expanses of breasts and thighs.
India: The Place of Sex
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Around the large expanse of lawn is a perimeter walk with regular lookout points over the park and the river.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is such an expanse of sky the light is just stunning.
Times, Sunday Times
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I eyed the expanse of flooded smartweed fringing the shore.
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Much of it is composed of rugged, tall mountain chains and wide expanses of barren desert-like plains.
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The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
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The tractor-trailer moved with excruciating slowness toward the lobby with its large expanse of plate-glass windows.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Channels of interbrain communication, whether by cable or radio, would make pointless all gatherings and get-togethers, excursions and journeys to attend conferences, and therefore all personal locomotion to whatever location, for every living being could avail itself of sensors and scanners situated over the whole expanse of human habitation ….
Digital reviewing
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The high ceilings and unbroken expanses of wall in such a house can make the rooms seem awkward and ungainly.
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The small, delicately outlined figures grouped together in large, unshaded expanses of background space and the subtle colouring create a pleasing sense of lightness and formal balance, but the air of decadence is inescapable.
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There was room in its wide expanse for the gathering of a household about the fire; its embrace was the embrace of love; and it was the type and model of those venerable and hallowed places which have given to the English language a word holier even than "Home," since that word is "Hearth.
The Cryptogram A Novel
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The terraces of the Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains ecoregion comprise a large expanse of early-Wisconsin glacial outwash deposits (older than 73b, 73c and 73l) reflecting braided stream depositional regimes.
Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)
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Bounded on the north by the Ritter Range, the San Joaquin River drains a vast expanse of mountains south of Yosemite.
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Beer-sheba to Horeb -- a wide expanse of sand hills, covered with the retem (not juniper, but broom shrubs), whose tall and spreading branches, with their white leaves, afford a very cheering and refreshing shade.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I allude to the means of communication by which different parts of the wide expanse of our country are to be placed in closer connection for purposes both of defense and commercial intercourse, and more especially such as appertain to the communication of those great divisions of the Union which lie on the opposite sides of the Rocky Mountains.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Bodies and charred wreckage were scattered over a huge expanse of sugar cane fields around the landing site.
The Sun
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In the tall, chapel-like gallery at the entrance, one gazed up, across and through the shimmering expanse of Summer Moon, a symphony of color, light and energy.
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Around the large expanse of lawn is a perimeter walk with regular lookout points over the park and the river.
Times, Sunday Times
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An oddly shaped white and yellow puddle of thinned pigment, its isolation heightened by an expanse of brushy, unmodulated blue, recalls Miro in its comic vulnerability.
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Ahead lay a vast expanse of wheat.
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He saw a great expanse of lush green meadow, where wild ponies galloped free and careless in its serenity.
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It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees.
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Boarded Se Hanta , Trinidad dam, boundless expanse of woodlands panoramic view.
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The heat was wavering up from the treeless, shrubless expanse; the white sun was over it as hot as a furnace blast.
Trail's End
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To the west and south-west are almost unlimited expanses of slope, dark green pineries, and grassy spots.
Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I
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The view seems idyllic - a broad expanse of glistening lake under a big blue sky, surrounded by treed shoreline.
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It is my hope, and my presumption, that such a place of appulse may be found, where we may take our stand, and from whence we may have a full view of the mighty expanse before us; from whence also we may descry the original design, and order, of all those objects, which by length of time, and their own remoteness, have been rendered so confused and uncertain.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
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Her large installation consisted of 16 columns made of various fabrics, including canvas, jute and burlap, the edges of which were charred and the expanses of which were often painted.
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Large expanses of different planets are your playground of destruction.
The Sun
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There was a vast expanse of marble slabbed flooring, all green and cream swirls, and lots of polished wood with carved curlicues.
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Formerly called the Trust Territory, Micronesia possesses only two-thirds the land area of Rhode Island, yet lies scattered over an expanse of ocean comparable to the contiguous United States.
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The expanse was all garden and orchard except for a building larger than any above, decked in flowerful vines.
Starfarers
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Eielson, located in the middle of the state in a flat expanse of land surrounded by mountains, offers a lot of extremes that can make life a bit trying at times, even for sourdoughs who've lived there for decades.
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The empty expanses which in posters appear merely flat are attentively worked surfaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ventral epidermal cells secrete a segmentally repeating pattern of small hooks, called denticles, separated by expanses of naked cuticle.
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Sometimes he painted the scene from the Vétheuil side, as in Lavacourt of 1880, taking in the broad sweep of the river and the vast expanse of intensely blue sky.
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We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.
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People in the book often feel like interrogative bodies exploring the outer limits of their own emotions and thoughts as well as the expanse beyond.
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And he surmised that another term, "the Camp," used to describe the archipelago's barren expanses, is derived from the Spanish word "campo," for countryside.
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However to the West of the estate lies an expanse of waste ground and swampland which very nearly cost the life of a young boy from the estate.
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It offers bundles of content in a massive expanse of land, with easy-to-use social features.
The Sun
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An instant of heat and he was suddenly standing at the edge of a great expanse of grassland, the grass withered and blackened in places but generally a dry yellow.
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The remote, fell-foot hamlet of Croglin lies tucked in among the fells and folds and dales and wide expanses of brooding water that pock the untamed landscape of Cumberland.
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I saw a man struggle with a pick axe to remove the carefully built stone edging with its squared, level surfaces; I heard the rocks thrown in the back of a truck and hauled away; and now I can see the flattened round expanse of dirt that remains like a smoothed over cicatrice.
There Goes the Neighbours
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There was a vast expanse of utterly empty sky to look at.
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An expanse of beautiful oak floorboards leads down a couple of steps to the most impressive room of all.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool.
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So I indicated that my goal henceforth was the space between two prongs of a garden fork, whereas his was the expanse between an apple tree and a pear tree in our fruity back garden.
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Across a vast white expanse a single figure appears as a dot on the horizon.
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Oh, if anything, anything, _anything_ would happen!" she breathed, stretching out both arms toward the snowy shrubbery-broken expanse behind the house which in summer was her garden.
Under the Country Sky
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Judith sighed and invited Molly on back into the sunroom, an uninspiring expanse of wicker and glass.
BAD MEDICINE
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My mind is a blank, a vast, puffy expanse of nothingness.
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Today, they have been chosen by the hired help: a jacquard twinset revealing an expanse of alabaster chest but not a hint of décolletage, plain black trousers and flip-flops.
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The Pacific in this region is an indolent blue expanse, pure and lonely, an almost untraversed sea.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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It is another of those tiny groups of dots that punctuate the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
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The repair and conservation of the east front includes the removal and restoration of the great east window - the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
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The large expanse of medullary matter now exposed, surrounded by the convoluted margin of gray substance, is called the centrum ovale majus.
IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
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Palin: “Being here with you Brit, the Fox family expanded out before me in the vast expanse that is our network, teeming with breathless new news, truth dontcha know … given freely to those free ones who embrace freely their freedom, free from the fettering of the nonfree liberal liberals eliting themselves on the people …”
Think Progress » O’Reilly excited that Palin will be able to use Fox News to help her political career.
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If your floor offers a wide expanse of uninterrupted space, a larger pattern may be used.
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We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.
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And do you want an intimate room, modest in size, or a grand space with a lofty ceiling and broad expanse of floor?
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I looked out over flat expanses of open farmland.
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The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan.
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The great plain of white sand which is enclosed between the blue lake-like expanses of the two meeting rivers is the Plain of Alms. In truth, there are three rivers which unite here -- the Ganges, the Jumna and the Saravasti -- and this thrice-hallowed spot is known in the Hindu mythologic system as the Triveni.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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The expanse of green, turquoise and blue water opened up before me, stretching to the horizon.
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Stables also regularly use the wide expanse of shoreline to exercise their horses.
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To one side was a rolling expanse of pasture land, clustered with flocks of sheep so thick that hundreds must graze there.
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Its bald expanse colonized by a single stubby tree, the narrow courtyard has the bleak and slightly disturbing aura of a de Chirico painting.
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His voice sounded flat and mute by the echoless expanse of plain.
Mission Of Honor
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The snowstorm swept the vast expanse of grassland.
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He stood by the windows, looking out over the great expanse of choppy sea, his tall form draped in something nondescript which might have been a military greatcoat.
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The palm-fringed emerald islets are surrounded by vast expanses of water.
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I had visions of running over to the fresh bread counter, ripping the crust off a large bloomer and burying my face in the soft, warm expanse of white loaf.
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The name is painted on white articulated lorries parked across a massive expanse of yard.
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This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds.
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Far up above the noisy throng an ospray sailed on the blue expanse of the sky, and quick as thought swooped down upon a halibut which had ventured to take a peep at the rising sun.
Tales From Two Hemispheres
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Like sunbathers by a pool, the frankfurters sit firmly but lightly on a white expanse of ground, each one edged by a shadow and marked by a perfect ribbon of mustard worthy of a vendor's expert touch.
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Across a two-mile expanse of water, Dorchester Heights, bosoming to the skies with luxuriant verdure, was at that time undisturbed by any habitation of man, save one small, rude building, where dwelt a fisherman and his wife, to whom we shall more particularly refer hereafter.
Nix's Mate
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Both grasses often colonize continuous expanses of desert, closing the open spaces that normally separate native desert plants and protect them from fire.
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To the south in 34i, hypersaline Laguna Madre forms a unique ecosystem and supports greater expanses of seagrasses.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Opposite the hotel is the start of the path up to an astoundingly beautiful area of mountain-tops and shining expanses of water.
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The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn; the potential for change was enormous.
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The vast expanse of content here is the true selling point.
The Sun
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Colour glows almost eerily in their luminous expanses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The evening sun, shooting athwart a clear expanse of water, between eighteen and twenty leagues in circumference, lighted up all the towns and villages, and towered castles, and spiry convents, that enriched the rising shores; brought out all the various tints of cultivation, and coloured with beamy purple the mountains which on every side formed the majestic background of the landscape.
The Italian
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A vast expanse of rice fields was laid out before us.
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The setting twin suns of Rijos, the red giant aptly named Rojo, and her blue companion Danube cast an eerily beautiful violet light on the endless expanse of beach.
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Each canvas features the richly textured and subtly modulated expanses of color for which he is well known.
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The sun came out and poured through the stained glass windows down onto the vast expanse of stone floor.
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The sky from the earth to the zenith was a vast expanse of illuminated smoke, and the black landscape round about was cut by rivulets of molten lava rolling on and on like restless streams of quicksilver.
The Changing Sun
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In any case, we also wouldn't mind flying off with the Schwerbelastungskörper and dumping it into some deltaic expanse.
Heavy Load-Exerting Concrete Body and Other Structural Near-Analogues
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Exclude areas under buildings, farmyard, roads, paths, woods, ponds, expanses of bare rock or bogland that is not grazed.
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From Trowunna I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England.
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There was a vast expanse of utterly empty sky to look at.
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Young Pip is destroyed when he is left totally isolated upon the wide expanses of the sea.
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Large expanses of privet need a longer blade, and the extra cost will be offset by the time saved.
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Ahead lay a vast expanse of wheat.
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The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
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All you can see when you get out of the car is this vast flat expanse of grass.
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Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures.
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Our main testing and exhibition hall is adjacent to a grassy expanse and a patio area.
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From its wide expanse on the back it is known as the latissimus dorsi
A Practical Physiology
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The sky was cloud-capped, an expanse of bleached gray.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
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The sky had darkened considerably since their leaving the meadow; bands of blue-black and deep purple traced themselves across the wide expanse, tiny pinpoints of light breaking through.
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The game had been due to start at 3pm but, at that time, there were yawning expanses of empty seats in all four stands.
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Conveying the same feel and cloaked in a white expanse is this beautiful abode with chic interiors for those craving for serenity.
London House Blends Contemporary and Classic in a Very Charismatic Way
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If there are deciduous trees in the picture-perfect expanse, their leaves will be raked, gathered, and disposed of at the curb.
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The great expanse of unoccupied land available for squatting throughout southeastern Australia implied that the sheep could be left to wander.
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The white expanse would eradicate those seething images, those demons which warred within him.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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We emerged into the country to find ourselves amid an open expanse of coconut palms, interspersed with the odd clove and nutmeg tree, banana palm and cinnamon bush.
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From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls.
Dispatches From the Natural World
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In fact, what you'd mostly see would be the gulfs between the stars, the black expanses that serve as our windows on the rest of the universe.
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You can get a shot of her from behind, with the wide expanse of Beach Road stretching away from her.
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Snow covered the grassy expanse behind the house, and the small pond out back had a thin layer of ice forming over its black waters.
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They framed the vast expanse of brine and muddy flats where Hunt set up shop.
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Its expanse seemed to stretch forever and, in the late afternoon light, was already in the shadow of the snowcapped peak to the west.
Kings of Colorado
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The River Oaks Country Club in Houston sits like a plantation mansion amid a vast expanse of magnolias, dogwood, azaleas, and golf greens.
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Large expanses of wall and items of furniture are getting a sunshine makeover.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the vast sandy expanse of Mason's Bay opens out ahead.
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This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers (racers).
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‘We all have our reasons for living here,’ said one, spreading her arms wide to take in the vast expanse of barren, windswept land.
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How could a culture not be stagnant, not feel purposeless, when a large middle class has been granted the luxury of materiality, which is swallowed in conformity as a measure of the expanse of life itself?
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The back was fairly low, just barely covering the thin fastener of her bra and her skin was warm as his fingers brushed against the creamy expanse.
The Boundaries of Consent (1/3)
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The remote, fell-foot hamlet of Croglin lies tucked in among the fells and folds and dales and wide expanses of brooding water that pock the untamed landscape of Cumberland.
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These valleys form part of a magnificent expanse of contiguous pristine valleys-a complex of giant trees unparalleled on Vancouver Island.
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The tide was out, further out than I had seen for a very long time, revealing an expanse of mud and mussel beds.
