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Expanse   /ɪkspˈæns/   Listen
Expanse

noun
1.
A wide scope.  Synonym: sweep.
2.
The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary.  Synonyms: area, surface area.  "It was about 500 square feet in area"
3.
A wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky.





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"Expanse" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the joyous contact of the noonday sun, his eyes, full of an uncomplaining and uncomprehending agony, sought hers; and Marjorie looked dumbly back with a feeling of desolation growing within her as vast and dreary as the gray expanse lapping beside them, for it seemed to her that Leonard was groping, pleading—oh, so silently—for an explanation, an inspiration deeper than anything he had known before—a something immense that would make it all right, this gigantic twentieth-century work of killing; square it with ...
— Four Days - The Story of a War Marriage • Hetty Hemenway
... the weather. The great limitless wilderness was frozen into a deathlike silence, and solemn and awful was the vast expanse of white that lay everywhere around them. They, they alone, it seemed, lived in all the dreary world. The icy hand of January had crushed all other creatures into oblivion. No deer, no animals of any kind crossed their ...
— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace
... of a life preserver and the ship sailing away in the distance. During my adventurous career I had faced death a score of times without the slightest emotion or semblance of fright, but as I floated about on that broad expanse of water alone I then realized for the first time in my life what a tiny, helpless ...
— Born Again • Alfred Lawson
... I gazed over the beautiful expanse of hill and dale, with a valley sweeping right away to ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... proportionably cramped and subdued. But, in this vast and favoured country, the very associations and impressions of childhood foster and enlighten the intellect and precociously rouse the energies. The wide expanse of territory already occupied—the vast and magnificent rivers— the boundless regions yet remaining to be peopled—the rapidity of communication—the dispatch with which everything is effected, are evident almost ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)


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