The tide was advancing, but there was still a bleak expanse of mud flats left uncovered beyond the beach.

The bleak, snow-covered expanse of Central -Park was far below.

To his left the bleak expanse of the Desert of Agriates lay bone-white beneath the night sky.

The second time he waved and pointed toward the ground and I saw the bleak rain-drenched expanse of a field, but there were no identifiable landmarks.

Gazing out at the bleak expanse, it was easy to understand why Islam had caught on so quickly among seventh-century Arabs.

The door panels are bleak expanses of plastic; the lid of the dashboard storage bin is flimsy junk.

Driving over it on a bridge was one thing, but crossing all of that bleak expanse in a tiny boat was quite another.

He climbed the outer wall and stared down at the bleak expanse below.

At the far end of this bleak expanse stood a tiny clump of palm trees that seemed to have fossilized with age.

A bleak expanse of rock cliffs stretched all the way to the horizon, illuminated by flashes from electrical storms in the dark, forbidding sky.