I looked around at the expanse of dunes below me, their proportions and distances distorted by the harsh sun.
I Tried to Climb the Largest Sand Dune in North America|Emily Pennington|September 22, 2020|Outside Online
Finally, I looked out my window into a beautiful little valley with what seemed to be the perfect expanse of wetland.
How to hunt for star-nosed moles (and their holes)|Kenneth Catania|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
These strikes caused dozens of fires from Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay, a forested, mountainous expanse, and came to be known as the CZU Lightning Complex fire.
How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire|Dain Zaffke|September 2, 2020|Outside Online
Meanwhile, SkyCool Systems of Mountain View, California, has developed essentially high-tech mirrors that can cast heat into the cold expanses of space, taking advantage of a natural phenomenon known as radiative cooling.
Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change|James Temple|September 1, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Advocates decry the amount, saying it’s too low compared with the profit SDG&E makes off the vast expanse of electric poles, wires and natural gas lines each year.
The City Is Walking a Fine Line in Demanding Millions From Its Next Power Provider|MacKenzie Elmer|August 7, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Kim Novak runs away from James Stewart, across an expanse of field.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Somewhere in that expanse of California sky, I know Edith Jefferson will be doing the jitterbug.
David Jefferson on His Four Gay Marriages and a Legal Victory Against Prop 8|David Jefferson|February 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There was a well-kept lawn in front of it, with here and there a trim flower-bed to relieve the monotony of the expanse of grass.
The Lost Valley|J. M. Walsh
Every now and then she stopped and listened intently, peering among the trees that skirted the road or across the expanse of moor.
Little Folks (November 1884)|Various
In the glittering morning light, the expanse of level shore and common was as desolate as ever.
A Loose End and Other Stories|S. Elizabeth Hall
In the distance, and encircling the expanse of prairie, stood a solid wall of forest and close-knit jungle.
Warrior of the Dawn|Howard Carleton Browne
How the waves roll up toward the vicarage that looks out from its hill on the expanse of the Baltic!
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11|Friedrich Spielhagen
British Dictionary definitions for expanse
expanse
/ (ɪkˈspæns) /
noun
an uninterrupted surface of something that spreads or extends, esp over a wide area; stretchan expanse of water
expansion or extension
Word Origin for expanse
C17: from New Latin expansum the heavens, from Latin expansus spread out, from expandere to expand