6 sentences with 'expanse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expanse and other words derived from it.
• « In other words, the entire expanse of land stretching from the borders of India to Greece, including almost all the cultures described in the previous chapters, were all conquered and controlled by the Persians. »
• « The region the Romans called Germania was a vast expanse of heavily forested land, which was cold, wet and unattractive from the Roman perspective. »
• « It is easy to focus on the technologies behind the new imperialism, to marvel at its speed, and to consider the vast expanse of European empires while overlooking what lies behind it all: violence. »
• « With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain claimed a vast new expanse of territory, at least on paper. »
• « To ambitious white planters, the expanse of new land available for cotton production seemed almost limitless, and many planters simply jumped from one area to another, abandoning their fields every ten to fifteen years when the soil was exhausted. »