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How to use vastness in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Vastness means the quality of being vast. Example: “The vastness of space really boggles the mind.”

Examples of vastness by meaning

nounSomething vast.

  • He had a feeling that he was lost in the vastness of a huge forest.1932, The Magnet - Bunter's Night Out

More sentences with vastness

  • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.From the entry boggle
  • Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?From the entry infinitesimal
  • She looked dubiously up the steep path to the vastness of dark wood on either side.1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 167. From the entry dubiously
  • Then as now this impersonal vastness was the public face of Russia.1983, Colin Thubron, “Leningrad”, in Among the Russians, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry net
  • This unacoustic vastness swallows the earth sounds and produces the effect of silence upon the soul.1914, William Chalmers Covert, Wild Woods and Waterways, page 22. From the entry unacoustic
  • In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.1994, Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, →ISBN. From the entry speck
  • Richardson sprang the inspired vastness of a McKim, Mead & White coup de maître, its interior reflorescent of the Baths of Caracalla.1980, Grace M. Mayer, Once upon a City, New York: Octagon Books, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry reflorescent
  • We have all heard of places where police will not go, or where they simply cannot impose order because of the vastness and marginality of the spaces.2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19. From the entry marginality
  • This is the unseen, rural middle class, slowly growing affluence-conscious behind the veil of dust and sun that shimmer over the vastness of India’s rural plains.1997, Douglas Bullis, “Marketing and Advertising”, in Selling to India’s Consumer Market, Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry mixie
  • You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out. From the entry vulgarize
  • Portia first made a splash in the art world with her monochromatic accumulations of plastic detritus arranged in “trashscapes” that reflected our cultural assumptions back at us through their vastness.2011, Stephen Hren, Tales From the Sustainable Underground. From the entry trashscape

Meaning of vastness

  1. noun The quality of being vast.
  2. noun Something vast.

Full definition of vastness

Questions about vastness in a sentence

How do you use vastness in a sentence?
Vastness is used as a noun. For example: “The vastness of space really boggles the mind.”
What is a short sentence with vastness?
“The vastness of space really boggles the mind.”
What does vastness mean?
Vastness means the quality of being vast.

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