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Example sentences for "vast extent"

  • Kumania is of vast extent; but, owing to the inclemency of its climate, is very thinly inhabited.

  • In the same sea, towards Serendib, there are other islands, not so many in number as those formerly mentioned, but of vast extent, and unknown.

  • The country of the Zinges, or Negroes, is of vast extent[13].

  • The ornamental grounds are of vast extent, and are beautifully diversified with the varied attractions of lake, lawn, and forest.

  • Thus a view of imposing loveliness and of vast extent is gained from the windows of this side of the mansion.

  • Hatfield House is of vast extent; it is of brick, with stone dressings.

  • After exploring a dozen or two of these little apartments, our curiosity was satisfied, as there was nothing more to be seen but a repetition of the same objects to a vast extent.

  • These mountains rise abruptly from the country of Concan, bounding, in the form of a terrace, a vast extent of fertile and populous plains, which are so elevated as to render the air cool and pleasant.

  • The transactions connected with the employment of the bills of the old bank are of vast extent, and should they result unfortunately the interests of individuals may be deeply compromised.

  • Since then the United States have acquired a vast extent of territory; eleven new States have been admitted into the Union, and Territories have been laid off for three others, which will likewise be admitted at no distant day.

  • Since then new territory has been acquired of vast extent, comprising within it many rivers, particularly the Mississippi, the navigation of which to the ocean was of the highest importance to the original States.

  • To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.

  • Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.

  • A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure.

  • The purity of the coal itself, or the absence in it of earthy particles and sand, throughout areas of vast extent, is a fact which appears very difficult to explain when we attribute each coal-seam to a vegetation growing in swamps.

  • The secondary causes which have contributed to the formation of a vast extent of dry land are due to the sedimentary deposits, which have resulted in the creation of new continents by filling up the basins of the ancient seas.

  • The fundamental gneiss, which covers such a vast extent of country, is the most striking instance known of general metamorphism.

  • The Mexicans dug obsidian from mines, which were of vast extent; and they employed it for making knives, sword-blades, and razors.

  • The latter require a vast extent of country, because they live only by hunting; whilst the Indians of Spanish Guiana employ themselves in cultivating cassava and plantains.

  • The view we enjoyed on the Turimiquiri is of vast extent, and highly picturesque.

  • If the system of the Jesuits had been followed, languages, which already occupy a vast extent of country, would have become almost general.

  • Thus in the heavy rainy season, it floods a vast extent of the country surrounding the lake and causes great misery to millions of people.

  • Besides the eighteen provinces, we have a vast extent of agricultural and pastural lands in Manchuria, Mongolia, and Sinkiang, and a vast extent of pastural land in Tibet and Kokonor.

  • These early efforts of the English, considerable as they were, can ill bear comparison with the vast extent of the French interior commerce.

  • I have represented a just self-knowledge as of very great importance; but it is a science of vast extent, as well as of vast importance.

  • Vast extent of the science of self-knowledge.

  • Are not all these things done, to a vast extent, either by servants, hired girls, or the mother?

  • Are no gay islands found in these, "No sylvan worlds, by Nature meant "To balance Asia's vast extent?

  • Are no gay islands found in these, "No sylvan worlds that Nature meant "To balance Asia's vast extent?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acknowledge the; call them; candied orange; cannot hold; does not include industrial lines broad; each session; general verdict; little higher; official exchange; past years; sudden burst; this remarkable; vast abundance; vast amount; vast army; vast concourse; vast deal; vast extent; vast majority; vast mass; vast number; vast plain; vast variety; vastly superior; vastly well; volcanic rock