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How to pronounce expanse in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms area, surface area
Type of extent
Has types space, place, balk, baulk, blank space, erasure, footprint, land area, acreage, plane section, section
Type Words
Synonyms sweep
Type of range, ambit, compass, scope, orbit, reach
Type Words
Type of space
Has types stretch, sheet

Examples of expanse

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There was a vast expanse of innings that had to be pitched, and he pitched them.
From the ocregister.com
He's standing on an expanse of coral reef out in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
From the npr.org
It takes a new look at the North Side expanse where Sandburg Village now stands.
From the suntimes.com
It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters of which is water.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Through the expanse of windows, the ocean seemed endless, glimmering in the sun.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In the process, they fed into the database details of a large expanse of forest.
From the newscientist.com
We descend further toward the lush expanse of farmland and lakes emerging below.
From the latimes.com
After a stream crossing, look east at the expanse of Blackwood Canyon below you.
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A walled lower town covered an expanse of 50 acres, much of which is unexplored.
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More examples
  • Sweep: a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"
  • Area: the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
  • A wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
  • The Expanse is a '''' novel, which was released in October 2003.
  • Several films and episodes of the science fiction franchise Star Trek were set in distinct regions of space. Some of these fictional locations exhibited anomalous physical properties. Others were defined as sensitive buffer zones under political accords.
  • A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land; An amount of spread or stretch
  • A wide, open are or surface; a stretch