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White expanse
Answer for the clue "White expanse ", 9 letters:
snowfield
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large permanent expanse of snow on a mountain or at the head of a glacier.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As if the verglas wasn't enough, there's a concrete snowfield below the wall. ▪ Eyes glitter with a memory of the chill snowfields that once claimed her. ▪ He trains by hauling huge logs across Siberian snowfields. ▪ We are planted ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a permanent wide expanse of snow
Usage examples of snowfield.
Snowfield, there was not just the usual night-duty sergeant at the Dugway headquarters.
Li looked out at the green leaves trembling beneath snowfields so blindingly white and oceans so brilliantly blue that you could almost imagine you were looking at clouds and sky, almost imagine you were standing on solid ground and not plastered to a spinning ring of vacuum-hardened virusteel.
The domed mines compound blazed against the darkness like a sun half-buried in the snowfields as we closed the final distance.
The high peaks glowed in all of their 8,000-meter glory, snowfields burning orange in the light.
There were electrostatic sleds that could be raced across the frozen snowfields, and opportunities to participate in bloodless but noisy holoed recreations of the ancient battles that had scarred this part of the planet.
Only the white shadow of the snowfields still glimmered, stretching away into the moonless dark, endless and empty as the White Sea.
Noth over a week ago, moving northward into the foothills and then ascending into the snowfields of the high Ohogan Mountains.
By mid-morning they were out of the snowfields, and by midday they were back at the place where they had camped the previous night.
Sitor Ananta closes his eyes sleepily, and she does not retreat when he slides closer, his blue fragrance cool, bitingly sweet, the frosty spice of a rocky snowfield.
The Trail to Belvoir was a good hundred yards wide, and ran almost dead straight across the immense snowfield.
Where there had been dried river-beds, with drifts of white sand shining like alpine snowfields in the sun, with quiet pools of still green water, and with steep high banks in which the brilliant kingfisher and little jewelled bee-eaters burrowed to nest, there were now maddened torrents of racing brown water, which brimmed over the high banks and carved out the roots of tall trees, toppling them into the flood and whisking them away as though they were mere twigs.
If there's any chance that a contagious disease has wiped out Snowfield, or some kind of environmental poisoning—.
Instead, his eye pitched down past the snowfields to the dark streak of timber line, and past timber line to a great, green valley with a river running straight as a silver arrow through its heart.
A half-dozen dual ski tracks fanned out from the end of the ramp onto the snowfield.
Kanakaredes thrusts himself into the steep snowfield like an Olympic swimmer diving off the starting block.