Synonyms

1. enlargement

Sentence Examples

1. She passed through the South Gate and headed through the Colonnade of Justice to the agora, allowing herself to gawk just a little at the expansion of public works.
2. The entanglement remained for some time a secret, kept hidden by my cunning precautions, until I perceived that a certain expansion of waist in Antonomasia must before long disclose it, the dread of which made us all there take counsel together, and it was agreed that before the mischief came to light, Don Clavijo should demand Antonomasia as his wife before the Vicar, in virtue of an agreement to marry him made by the princess, and drafted by my wit in such binding terms that the might of Samson could not have broken it.
3. I had done some very thorough analysis, showing alternative scenarios for different rates of plant expansion and various financing approaches with different mixes of debt and equity.
4. Unless for default of this renovation, I could see no reason, therefore, why life could not be sustained even in a vacuum for the expansion and compression of chest, commonly called breathing, is action purely muscular, and the cause, not the effect, of respiration.
5. That will be a priority in our proposed expansion of the house.
6. But Dominic was never satisfied he always had new ideas on expansion, which required more money.
7. The value of the land is a big motivator, but some actions seemed to go beyond mere natural resource seeking and wanting land for population expansion.
8. These phenomena were occasioned by the expansion of the gas, through increase of heat in the atmosphere, and the consequent disruption of the minute particles of ice with which the network had become encrusted during the night.
9. His expansion drew the attention of the ruling Communist Party, who frowned upon such wealth, so he made large contributions to the Party itself as well as funding community projects across the region, while he built a modest empire.
10. That was before The Breaking, and all sign of habitation by the fox-faced creatures had been erased by centuries of excavation and expansion by the Dwarves.