Word familynounexpandabilityexpanderexpanseexpansibilityexpansionexpansionismexpansionistexpansivenessexpansivityadjectiveexpandableexpandedexpansibleexpansileexpansionalexpansionaryexpansionisticexpansiveadverbexpansiblyexpansivelyverbexpand
AREAa very large area of water, sky, land etc 宽广的空间
expanse of
an expanse of blue sky
广阔的蓝天
vast/wide/large etc expanse
the vast expanse of the ocean
一望无际的海洋
Examples from the Corpus
expanse• The Pequod moves softly through the blue expanse.• We traveled across a broadexpanse of desert.• If we live on continents, we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water.• Across the rooftops, a lonecopprowler was the only thing moving on the cold expanse of the GrandCanal.• A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curvedexpanse of the copper-sheathed dome.• Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-madesanddunebuffer, delivering us on to a vastexpanse of palebeach.• He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him.