EXPANDING in a Sentence

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His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPANDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expanding
 a.  increasing; something expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  "Yas'm," said Prissy, expanding with importance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The expanding forces of life within her choked the desire for reforming.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  All these eyes, expanding and narrowing, some adapted to light, others to darkness, looked from different angles and edges.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
6  "Now, hearken to me," she said, her delicate voice expanding into firmness by a force which was other than physical.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
7  His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
8  Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, expanding young souls.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
9  This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
10  It was an exquisite candor expanding and becoming transfigured in the light.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
11  Day after day she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
12  I like a favorable reception; it expands the countenance, and those around me do not then appear so ugly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
13  The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
14  Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a thousand antennae, which expands below as the city expands above.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
15  But amid his utterance a quick shudder overruns his limbs; his eyes are fixed in horror; so thickly hiss the snakes of the Fury, so vast her form expands.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
17  The new system expanded the role of family doctors.
18  The writer expanded his short novel into a long one.
19  Payne later expanded on his initial statement.
20  According to the Secretary of State, the Russians face no threat from an expanded NATO.
21  The computer industry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
22  It has since expanded to include a multitude of girls, including several recurring regulars.
23  The economic relationship between the two nations has expanded during the past decade amid China's economic boom and Argentina's rise in agrarian production.
24  Certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life.
25  He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self - indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
26  Even more problematic is the likelihood that once instituted, such a tax would be expanded.
27  Today's plumber is in demand and has expanded duties, which include installing, repairing and maintaining piping.
28  Only in more recent times a silversmith has expanded to work on jeweler, due to the similarity in techniques.
29  His introspection that afternoon reflected Mr. Obama's journey from the candidate who wanted to wind down America's overseas wars to the commander in chief who just resumed and expanded one.
30  Government authorities have expanded investigations into multiple business lines at some of the nation's largest banks, a sign that the legal morass enveloping the industry has no clear end in sight.