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Example sentences for "expand"

Lexicographically close words:
exostoses; exostosis; exoteric; exotic; exotics; expanded; expander; expanding; expands; expanse
  1. All France was about to take up arms, and chests seemed to expand with a sigh of relief.

  2. But Germany has a strong chest and has only to expand in order to burst its bands.

  3. I might expand and I might expound, but that's the sum and substance of it.

  4. Considerable potential exists for development of a tourist industry, and the government has taken steps to expand facilities in recent years.

  5. In an effort to expand international ties, Tirane has reestablished diplomatic relations with the major republics of the former Soviet Union and the US and has joined the IMF and the World Bank.

  6. His ideas began immediately to expand and change.

  7. To this end the dynasties must be indemnified: Spain might have Portugal, Prussia the hegemony of North Germany, Austria might expand in Bavaria and Italy.

  8. To be sure, he gave a formal assurance that he did not intend to expand the borders of France beyond the Rhine.

  9. Flexion of the loins to expand the chest 4 8 2.

  10. The rider will expand his chest as much as possible, so that each part of his body rests upon that next below it, for the purpose of increasing the adhesion of his buttocks to the saddle; the arms will fall easily by the sides.

  11. As the barons lose power, each of your cities will strengthen and possibly expand to become nations.

  12. Now I wish to expand on my reason for gathering you.

  13. Blest with thy smile, my dauntless sail I dare expand to fancy's gale.

  14. Let us expand our definitions until they embrace all the needs of man, his highest intellectual needs inclusive.

  15. But we must now expand our definition of combustion, and include under this term, not only combustion in air, but also combustion in liquids.

  16. At present we may illustrate and expand the subject thus: In front of our camera is a large opening (L, fig.

  17. Henceforth we were to be emancipated from clogging foreign influences, and a national literature was to expand under the fostering care of the Republic.

  18. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which, in all countries and contingencies, will work after its kind and conquer ind expand all that approaches it.

  19. In one of the modifications of Barton's piston, on the contrary, the packing is dispensed with, as the flexible springs t t t press upon the wedges c c c, and expand the intermediate plates.

  20. By the adoption of this improvement, its property of conducting heat was reduced, and the wood having been previously jointed, with the grain radiating in all directions from the centre, was not liable to expand by the heated steam.

  21. A and B represent the two cylinders, in the larger of which the steam is allowed to expand itself, after passing from the high pressure cylinder B.

  22. With this view, he endeavored to render the action of the church as dignified and imposing as possible; to enlarge and expand its ceremonial proceedings, and make it the theatre for the exercise of his authority as its head and ruler.

  23. Becoming objects of such notice, they were stimulated to vary and expand the manifestations of the extraordinary influence that was upon them.

  24. Boyle's first idea seems to have been derived from a lock of wool in which the elasticity of each fibre caused the lock to expand after it had been compressed in the hand.

  25. Alice, pray God to expand them to heavenly life.

  26. Within these limits it will increase the vigor of the heart, expand the lungs, clear the brain, deepen sleep, and improve the appetite.

  27. No matter how briskly the fire burns in the furnace, or how much good coal you may shovel into it, if there be no water in the boiler above it to expand and make steam, the engine will do no work.

  28. Sufficient reference and topic work is offered to enable teachers to expand the text along particular lines.

  29. Educational facilities continued to expand and to diversify until at the end of the Civil War period there were more than seven million children in the elementary schools of this country.

  30. These spots may expand into regular or irregular patches, or run into stripes, of which many cases will be given in the sequel.

  31. Now, natural selection may suppress certain spots, or lines, or expand them into wide, uniform masses, or it may suppress some and repeat others.

  32. The flowers which in the ancestress were single and small become double in the offspring, and expand their countless petals to the sun in all the majesty of the Queen of Flowers.

  33. These should all be planted against a south wall, so that their flowers expand at the same time; and they will probably give some fine autumnal roses, brilliant in color, and very double.

  34. They need a rich diet, and a sunny and airy situation, to induce them to expand their flower-buds, which are provokingly apt to fall before opening.

  35. It needs to contract and expand regularly, and if little interval is allowed to elapse, it does not have the chance of doing so.

  36. This only raises it, it does not expand it.

  37. All of these show that the world of existence is continuously progressing and developing; and therefore, assuredly, the virtues characterizing the maturity of man must, likewise, expand and grow.

  38. Maurice seemed to expand as the English fog gradually lifted.

  39. Christianity expand those laws by teaching the religion of sympathy?

  40. Place the flattened end of H in the slot, and strike it on top so that it will expand and be pinched in the slot; but do not pound it so hard that you split the bolt head.

  41. Three or four good center-punch dents upon the wire over the slot will help to expand it.

  42. If you put a bladder that is filled with air and tied up, into the pipe of a heated stove, the air inside will expand so much as to burst the bladder with a loud report.

  43. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy!


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adulterate; aggrandize; amplify; attenuate; aught; augment; balloon; bloat; blow; boost; branch; broaden; build; bulge; bulk; complete; compound; crescendo; cut; deepen; deploy; descant; detail; develop; diffuse; dilate; dilute; discourse; disperse; distend; elaborate; embroider; enlarge; evolve; exalt; expand; expatiate; explicate; extend; fan; fatten; fill; flare; flourish; gather; generalize; grow; heighten; hike; huff; increase; inflate; labor; lengthen; magnify; manifest; maximize; mount; multiply; open; overgrow; overrun; parlay; particularize; plus; progress; puff; pump; push; pyramid; raise; ramify; rarefy; snowball; splay; sprawl; spread; stretch; swell; thicken; thin; unfold; upsurge; water; wax; widen