How to Use expanse in a Sentence

expanse

noun

• The explorer gazed across the vast Arctic expanse.
• The expanse of the pool makes up the view from the rest of the kitchen and dining area.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Being in the midst of one of the great, dry expanses of the world has me in a mood.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The main kitchen looks out over the deck and pool and beyond, to the vast expanse of sea and sky.
  — David Sokol, ELLE Decor, 6 Oct. 2022
• When a long, strange trip it’s been… and in the vast expanse of Sphere, now, what a long, tall and wide trip.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2024
• And that expanse of blue — blue sky, blue water — soothes the brain.
  — Kate Cohen, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
• The best aspect of the space — its sprawling and plant-filled expanse under the open sun — has not changed.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
• The piece as a whole feels like a kind of ark or boat that travels through your mind in its own expanse of blue.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The new purchase raises the refuge's expanse to over 2,570 acres of riverfront and lake plain prairie.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024
• Yet came the day the trees broke, the corridor ended, and I was thrust upon the rocky expanse that was the Great Dark.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
• Almost silent, the chime rings like a tiny triangle off in the expanse.
  — Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Molli couldn’t drive across the wide expanse of West Texas, but there’s a resource for that, too.
  — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• For now, the land remains an open expanse of the Colorado Desert, where coyotes and bighorn sheep roam.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• An expanse of landscaped wall shelters the site from the curb and adds a veil of privacy.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• The view from its front, where the attack occurred, is an endless expanse of frozen snow and ice to the horizon.
  — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
• And now, within the limitless expanse of the Spider-Verse, there’s room for all of us.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
• An image from March of this year, of the same view, showed that what had been open water was now an expanse of sand.
  — Nick Bowlin, Outside Online, 4 May 2022
• The reflections of the town’s palm trees now shimmer across the expanse of a new lagoon, framed by steep sand dunes.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• To reach the minerals here would require a 211-mile road through the heart of this Arctic expanse.
  — Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• Some might look at the curved expanses of the body and see a cosmic butterfly.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• Not just on the local landscape — the expanse of concrete, steel and valves is the size of a small city — but also on the climate.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The jetty is a 1,500-foot earthwork coil of basalt rock and mud that sprawls into the mirror-like expanse of the Great Salt Lake.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2024
• As the trailer begins, a vast expanse of rubbish litters the frame.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
• The paint on one side of the front plate was missing entirely, leaving an expanse of naked tin.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Spotting a small spacecraft like Odysseus against the wide expanse of the moon is an impressive feat.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Sisi has blanched at suggestions that Gazans should find a new home in the vast desert expanse of the Sinai Peninsula.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• So the treetop walkway looks out on an expanse of empty dirt.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The view out of her chalet window has always been more or less the same -- wide expanse of mountains, hills and chalets, all capped in frothy, thick snow.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• The finale opens on a lush green expanse of forest as women vocalize in the background.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
• Some call these places home, or live under uncertified expanses of dark sky.
  — Lane Sainty, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024