noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stretch/expanse of desert (= a very large area of desert )
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In front of us was nothing but a vast expanse of desert.
vast areas/expanses/tracts etc (of sth)
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vast areas of rainforest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flat
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He accelerated up a dark and steep hill and finally they emerged on to the flat expanse of Blackheath.
great
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He crossed from the garage loft to the great expanse of his brick-built house.
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The road to that decision point is a long one, traversing great expanses of science, technology, and economics.
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To the North there are great expanses of beaches.
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Music blares out from the theatre across the great expanse .
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Beyond this channel the great main expanse of the lake towards the east opens out.
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As a prairie youth I loved Vancouver and the great expanse of open sea, and hoped to live there some day.
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The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor.
huge
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But it was nothing compared to the strain of walking out on to that huge expanse of stage and facing the crowd.
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Window problem: The huge expanse of windows on Darlington's new Cornmill Centre has presented window cleaners with a headache.
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Bank upon bank of thrift and proud long-stemmed daisies intermingled with huge expanses of gorse and foxgloves.
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There was something about this huge expanse of rugged land that changed his sense of time.
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For the Great Fen that once covered the huge expanse of 2,500 square miles has shrunk to a tiny fraction.
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In summer it is a huge expanse of grain-growing land.
large
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The walk southwards brings you to Widemouth Bay, a large expanse of golden sands.
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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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West of the atrium is a large expanse of water popularly known as the port of Milan.
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He seldom hunts in Gloucestershire because he finds the large expanses of flat and open farmland boring.
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Alternatively it can be balanced by the large expanse of blank, negative mount, which will assert its texture.
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The far wall was a large expanse of ornamented glass, with pitch blackness beyond.
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Derelict land often forms the only large expanse of land that is not well-manicured and possessed by peak-capped officials.
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This will give the curtains a larger expanse and create a striking splash of colour.
vast
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He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him.
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The way paintings were hung, how sculpture and furniture were placed across the vast expanse , suggested landscape rather than decor.
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Yet the whole was harmonious, welded together beneath the vast expanse of Virginia creeper which covered the walls to the eaves.
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My mind is a blank, a vast , puffy expanse of nothingness.
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Layers of colour, white, reds and vast expanses of different tones of green.
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Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-made sand dune buffer, delivering us on to a vast expanse of pale beach.
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The vast expanse of Exmoor national park starts at Combe Martin.
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For example, Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space.
wide
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There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn.
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When operated in wide expanses of water, away from other people, jet skis pose no hazard.
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If she goes forward now she will be visible; the wide expanse of grass leads to stone steps with a balustrade.
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Then it happens again and Pip is left in the wide expanse of the ocean.
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They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank, back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more.
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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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Across a wide expanse of mahogany sat a man in his fifties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We traveled across a broad expanse of desert.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome.
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Across the rooftops, a lone cop prowler was the only thing moving on the cold expanse of the Grand Canal.
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He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him.
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If we live on continents, we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water.
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Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-made sand dune buffer, delivering us on to a vast expanse of pale beach.
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The Pequod moves softly through the blue expanse .