VAST in a Sentence

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For VAST, below is one of 253 sentences:
Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.

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 Meanings and Examples of VAST
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vast
 a.  large; broad; extensive; very great in size, number, amount, or quantity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Then, as she started back toward the driver's seat, a vast weariness assailed her and she swayed dizzily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Lily's preference would have been for an English nobleman with political ambitions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the Vatican.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
9  Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room, sitting in a vast prim circle as though they were attending a funeral, she saw the guests.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Kennicott wore a brown canvas hunting-coat with vast pockets lining the inside, corduroy trousers which bulged at the wrinkles, peeled and scarred shoes, a scarecrow felt hat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  As the vast girdle of crimson darkened, the fulfilled land became autumnal in deep reds and browns.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  When she did contrive to get sweetbreads at Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market the triumph was so vast that she buzzed with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher, Mr. Dahl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  The words and the light blurred into one vast indefinite happiness, and she believed that some great thing was coming to her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible chateau fronting the Lake of the Isles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  She regarded the Schnitzler play with no vast interest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
16  A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.
17  The vast majority live further inland.
18  The vast majority of the workers here are Protestants.
19  The vast majority of nations have agreed to unite their efforts to bring peace.
20  The vast majority of students here are self-supporting.
21  We can catch the vast majority of people, but hunting down every last tax dodger is virtually impossible.
22  The new tax means that the vast majority of pensioners will lose out.
23  The vast majority of our people feel ignored and voiceless.
24  Ankor Wat is part of a vast network of around a hundred ancient temples hidden deep in the Cambodian jungle.
25  Stars are radiators of vast power.
26  They predict that the vast majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
27  Kazakhstan, a vast territory, broke away from the former Soviet Union only ten years ago and is rarely in the international limelight.
28  The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
29  Voters see the same old candidates year after year and figure that the incumbent is usually a lock in a vast number of congressional districts.
30  An internal audit led to Julie Wall's downfall and her vast collection has now been auctioned to pay back some of what she owes.