Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. From LearnThat.org. [Sir James Jeans (1877-1946).]
Minow coined the phrase "vast wasteland" in 1961, he was referring to television. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
"I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor?". From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
Hillary has her fight with what she calls the vast right wing conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2007] Reference
He and Hillary have spent their adult lives fighting what she called the vast right wing conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008] Reference
But Mr. Obama stood behind his proposals, which he described as a vast improvement over the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I'd like to blame the French toast, the mocha lattes, the pizza, and what I call the vast buffalo wing conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Schwartzberg: Avoid New Year's PREsolutions] Reference
They were being caught in vast quantities offshore. From Wordnik.com. [Managing the Fishery] Reference
Spiritualists will readily accept, are recorded in vast numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Honey bees are dying in vast numbers and nobody knows exactly why. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
It was about the people who showed up in vast numbers to be counted. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: The Rally] Reference
This is in vast contrast to the attitude of the people back in the US. From Wordnik.com. [Developing An Ear for Spanish] Reference
This brought architects, hostesses, artists and officials in vast numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's New Status] Reference
We have turned the corner on water quality in vast swathes of North America. From Wordnik.com. [The founding fathers believed that governments are instituted among men for the sole purpose of protecting human rights.] Reference
Where waterpower is least abundant, coal in vast quantities is near at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Turning the Corner] Reference
Frankly, I call the vast majority of them “dessert” and leave it at that. From Wordnik.com. [Do you name your dishes? | Baking Bites] Reference
A. FRA.KEN: So I use the word vast a lot, but I don't say there was a conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2003] Reference
A. FRA.KEN: No, nor did I put -- I've used the word vast a lot in the book because. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2003] Reference
Do you support ending Offshore Oil Drilling moratorium in vast stretches of coastlines?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 31, 2010] Reference
Second, in vast woodlands they tend to be more dispersed and therefore harder to locate. From Wordnik.com. [How to Find Bucks in Big Woods Habitat] Reference
In this sense, too, Clintonism proved poisonous to Democrats in vast swaths of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Clintonism, R.I.P.] Reference
Lives ripped apartand destroyed, exiles created in vast numbers, basic services debilitated. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers] Reference
After ninety minutes in my tour van I realized: so vast is Cairo, there really is no way across it. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Egypt] Reference
They were colorfully illustrated and were sold in vast numbers at newsstands and stores everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Roy J. Glauber - Autobiography] Reference
And companies, which laid off workers in vast numbers over the last few years, are starting to respond. From Wordnik.com. [Where to Find a (Good) Job During the Holidays] Reference
Antibodies were probably formed, we believed, but were promptly bound by antigen present in vast excess. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The wild turkey is back in vast numbers and may be coming soon to a garage, backyard or windshield near you. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Turkeys Making a Large Comeback in the Urban Communities | Impact Lab] Reference
I have no time to point out the wasteful methods of curing of fish, resulting in vast money losses every year. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Fishery Resources] Reference
In fact, so vast is it that it may be considered a new terrestrial biome and given its own Köppen classification. From Wordnik.com. [Solar Towers] Reference
The enemy had assembled in vast numbers all around me, but I never could get near him, so wary and so vigilant was he. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
The street railways of a swarming metropolis stand idle, or the rumble of machinery in vast manufactories dies away to silence. From Wordnik.com. [A New Law of Development] Reference
He took his camera and recorded what he saw, which was death inflicted on villagers in vast areas by the Arab Janjiweed militias. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 3.] Reference
Australia, sheep and rabbits compete for sparse vegetation in vast prairies that were thick with native grasses two centuries ago. From Wordnik.com. [Collapse by Jared Diamond: Questions] Reference
But the far greater issue is this: microbes, aka bacteria, encounter those antibiotics in vast herds of medicated cattle and swine. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Unkillable Bacteria: Where Eating Meat Meets Pound of Flesh] Reference
With the heavens in vast conflagration and the earth hulaing beneath our feet, was a scene too awful and too majestic to be enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [When Alice Told Her Soul] Reference
The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes. From Wordnik.com. [Belching Volcanoes or Fartin' Martians? - NASA Watch] Reference
"The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes.". From Wordnik.com. [Belching Volcanoes or Fartin' Martians? - NASA Watch] Reference
That danger will last while there are nuclear weapons in vast quantities and in a state of readiness to be used in a matter of minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Where Does Disarmament Stand Today?] Reference
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