Sentences with 'expanses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expanses and other words derived from it.
• « As far as the Romans were concerned, there were only two things beyond these borders: to the north and northeast, endless expanses of inhospitable land and semi-human barbarians like the Germanic tribes, and to the east, the only other civilisation Rome was prepared to recognise: the Persians, ruled first by the Parthians and then by the Sassanids. »
• « This is the heartening biography of Stephen Hawking, the extraordinary Cambridge professor who explores with his mind the vast expanses of intergalactic space and who has contributed so much to our understanding of the universe we inhabit: how it originated, why we are what we are, and what our ultimate fate is likely to be. »