Take any particular member of any particular congregation; and his social circle, the company of friends in which he expands most freely and happily, will possibly have no connection with those he sits beside in the church.
In the pure and therefore easily cut limestone layers the cavity rapidly expands until the light of the lantern may not disclose its walls.
And, although there must also be downward movements of the air to supply the place of that which has ascended, still the heat of the ascending air, combined with its upward movement, expands and floats the vapour of the clouds.
The water thereforeexpands and rises in the form of vapour, or water attenuated by heat.
But, as caloric uniformly expands substances that are under its influence, one of the bodies most sensitive to calorific effects has been selected to be the indicator of the amount of caloric.
Because the heat expandsthe air, and drives nearly all of it out of the cup.
When a substance in a compressed stateexpands on a sudden, it draws in heat, on the other hand.
The steam rushes out tremendously hot, but it expands instantly so very much, that the heat in it directly becomes latent in a great measure; which cools it down sufficiently to allow you to hold your hand in it without its hurting you.
The air sticks and hangs in the water, till the heat expands it and makes it rise.
And even as the soul within your dust Through members different and accommodated To faculties diverse expands itself, So likewise this Intelligence diffuses Its virtue multiplied among the stars.
There is a light above, which visible Makes the Creator unto every creature, Who only in beholding Him has peace, And it expands itself in circular form To such extent, that its circumference Would be too large a girdle for the sun.
Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself.
The latter expands scarcely an inch when its wings are stretched apart, and its slender body and antennae help to give the suggestion of extreme delicacy.
It expands nearly two inches and when the front wings are spread at right angles, the distance from the apex of the front wing to the end of the tail of the hind wing just about equals the expanse.
The Spring Azure= Cyaniris ladon For a wee bit of a gossamer-winged creature that expands scarcely an inch across its outstretched wings, the Spring Azure has caused American scientists an immense amount of patient labor.
These receptacles being formed, air passes into and expands the cavity, and respiration is commenced, the fore limbs are liberated from the branchial chambers, and the first transformation is accomplished.
The nails are sometimes wanting on all the toes, but more frequently hooked, and more or less retractile; the toes sometimes united at the base, and in Platydactylus the extremity of the toe expands into a fan shape, as in the Tree Frogs.
At the same time their eyes become fixed, the feathers of the head stand up, and the tail expands itself.
Chrysippus next his subtle web disposed: Zeno alternate spread his hand, and closed; To show how eloquence expands the soul, And logic boasts a close and nervous whole.
Trespass on the case [or "case" for short] expands in usage to cover many types of situations.
Like the marvellous tent of the fairy Paribanou, it expands itself to meet every want and contracts again the moment the strain is passed.
When heat expands the strands, the twist simply loosens without causing a sag, and when cold contracts them, the twist tightens, all without materially altering the relative lengths of the combined wires.
Experience shows that our commerce with other countries expands as they progress industrially and economically.
Moreover, as our numbers increase and as our life expandswith science and invention, we must discover more and more leaders for every walk of life.
Understanding in this larger sense the indwelling of the Christ for which he prays, we see how naturally his supplication expands into the "height and depth" of the ensuing verse.
The Christ" of this epistle expands the Saviour's title to its boundless significance, and gives breadth and length to that which in "Christ" is gathered up into a single point.
All such phenomena are explained on James Thomson's exposition of the behaviour of a substance which expands on passing from the liquid to the solid state.
It must have been observed a very long time ago that water expands when it freezes.
However, here, too, the action of the stress is opposed by the secondary effects developed in the substance; for it is found that this substance contracts when heated, expands when cooled.
It appeals to us in a general way that as water expands on freezing, pressure will tend to resist the turning of it to ice.
When the singer lifts andexpands in a free, flexible manner the body fills with breath.
The entire body expands easily and freely by letting go all contraction of muscle.
In this way the form elongates and the compass expands without effort or strain.
This mild temperature so expands the material in the hoop that the difference of diameter is overcome and the hot hoop is expanded to a larger inside diameter than the outside diameter of the cold tube on which the hoop is to be placed.
If the temperature should rise, the ether in the thermostat expands and pushes the mercury column up along the inclined long limb.
Should the temperature rise, the alcohol in the glass tube (T) expands and causes the mercury in the free limb of the U tube to rise.
As the temperature rises, this expands and pushes the mercury column farther along the tube.
The outlet of this last expands into a lake, and again into water called Two Lakes from its form; whence the discharge is into Otter Tail l.
Having passed this, the river expands to nearly two miles in width, and has four islands, whose lowest points are nearly parallel; these we called the Four Brothers.
The first part of the distance is obstructed by islands, and the river expands to a great width, so as to render the navigation extremely difficult; but the latter part affords more water and is less difficult.
The latter has an outlet which expands into three successive and about equidistant lakes, and is then received into Lac Terrehaute, or Height of Land l.
Olmsted's bar is the Sixth rapid of Nicollet, at a place where the river expands and contains a cluster of small islands, called The Sirens by Beltrami, II.
This is the largest body of water into which the Red River of the North expands in Minnesota, and may be called a principal source of that river, as Pike says, though it compares with the true source very much as Leech l.
The best way to observe this is to look at a cat's eyes in the dusk, and then bring her near to a bright light; for the iris of a cat's eye contracts and expands much more than ours does.
When there is very little light, and it is necessary to let in as much as possible, the ring expands and the pupil grows large.
As it expands it fills with a clear fluid, and naturalists have not yet decided exactly what work it does.
Just how water works in the engine we know--the heat from the furnace changes it into steam, which means that heat expands it, or makes it fill more space.
I want the whole; the source and sum of divine and human knowledge, and though I craze as even one truth expands its infinitude before me, I go forth alone, rejecting all that others have done, to prove my own soul.
Each bank expands its credits to the full limit in times of prosperity, for its own profit, and in time of distress contracts them for its own safety, thus increasing the distress at such times.
Most of these adulterations may be detected by the action of boiling water, which softens and expands the fibres, thus exposing their true shape and nature.
Cork is a body remarkably light, can be easily compressed, expands again by its elasticity as soon as the compressing power is removed, and therefore fills or stops up very closely that space into which it has been driven by force.
In my hours in which the senses are dominant the spirit shrinks in abhorrence; just as it thrills, warms and expands in rarer moments of nobility.
On the surface of all his sayings, and all comment about him, was the bland, deadly insinuation that the soul expands in the pursuit of bodily health.
When ev'ry infant flower, that wept in night, Lifts its chill head soft glowing with a tear, Expands its tender blossom to the light, And gives its incense to the genial air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
