Did books dilating upon the expanding power of America reflect British public opinion, or did they create it?
This was followed two days later by a despatch dilating upon the probability of war, and ending with Lyons' opinion of how it should be conducted.
She shivered as if rudely buffeted by some freezing blast, and the steely glitter leaped up, like the flash of a poniard, in her large, dilating eyes.
The spark leaped up lurid as ever, in her dilating eyes.
The mechanism of respiration is as follows: The animal inhales the air into its lung by forcibly dilating the pulmonary orifice, which lies in the largest spiral turn of the shell.
Starting from this centre and working outwards, we note that it is preceded by six verses dilating on the profanations of the name of God, and followed by six setting forth the glories of that name in the past.
But very pathetic and true to the experience of many a sorrowing heart is the psalmist's immediately subsequent dilating on his griefs.
All this they do by causing the blood to circulate more freely, and dilating the vessels on the surface, and in so doing relieving the congestion in the muscles and internal organs.
Furthermore, it serves a good purpose in making the blood circulate more freely and in dilating the vessels of the skin, thus assisting in the elimination of waste matter.
His big nostrils were dilatingmore than ever; he turned his head so that one of his eyes again looked into hers.
She found the little sufferer stretched upon his bed of pain with wildly dilating eyes; it wrung Mavis's heart to see what difficulty he had with his breathing.
Orgles's head was now upon one side, so that one of his eyes was able to glare hungrily at her; his big nostrils were dilating with the violence of his passion.
Presently Harris, whose eyes had been dilating for some moments, broke out in a hoarse whisper: "Listen!
He explained them at length to Rosendo after the morning meal; and the latter, with dilating eyes, manifested his great joy by clasping the priest in his brawny arms.
His eyes blazed like live coals, and his breath seemed to issue from his dilating nostrils like clouds of steam.
No," said Carmen, her eyes dilatingwith surprise, "but we would resurrect him!
Yes," continued he, his tall figure dilating with long repressed and cherished passion, "I will rouse all Europe with the wrongs of the noble house of Suabia.
A thrill ran through her frame, her slight fingers quivered in his clasp, and the world of recollections that rushed back upon her brain, beamed from her dilating eyes.
Her complexion was pale, and her little aquiline nose showed thin, dilating nostrils.
With his splendid antlers laid far back he lifted his great, dilating nostrils, stared down the long, white lanelike open toward the rising sun, and sniffed the air inquiringly.
Something like a panic came into the dilating eyes of the big bull.
Then he stopped suddenly and listened, his sensitive ears and dilating nostrils held high to catch the faintest waft of air.
Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form, Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.
It must be remembered that the lungs are dilatingeach time a breath is taken in, and contracting each time a breath of air is expelled.
The action of the two sets is necessarily antagonistic, the radiating fibers dilating the pupil and exposing the interior of the eye to view, while the circular fibers contract this opening and shut out the rays of light.
The two convex glasses of crown-glass in contracting the sun's image towards the focus, the concave glass of flint-glass in dilating the image beyond it, exhibit at the edges the usual colours.
When the telegram, arrived and the young husband took his bride in his arms, the girlish face was lifted, and the passionate gleam of the dilating brown eyes sent a strange thrill to the hearts of both father and son.
As round his tail the bands they drew His mighty form dilating grew Vast as the flame that bursts on high Where trees are old and grass is dry.
Níla was the son of Agni the God of Fire, and possessed, like Milton’s demons, the power of dilating and condensing his form at pleasure.
Our Lord Jesus, when dilating upon some of the great and necessary works of our Creator, puts check beforehand to all uncomely fears; to such fears as become not the faith and profession of a Christian.
Seizing it, she gazed at the face intently, and then, with dilating eyes, turned to Mrs. Latimer.
She paused for a breathless moment, and stood gripping the table, looking with dilating eyes and these two, who, loving each other, were yet preparing to murder Love.
He was very little, and his eyes were dilating with fright.
Her start of attention, her dilating eyes, made the tears spring to his own eyes.
I should like to send her some very beautiful thing indeed,' cried Ella, with emphasis, and eyes dilating at some visionary magnificence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dilating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
