Enlarging

Examples

• The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This has already appeared in so many instances, that we may spare ourselves the trouble of enlarging upon it any farther. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is a commonplace that an alert and expanding mental life depends upon an enlarging range of contact with the physical environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• On the other hand, the enlarging of the apparatus to permit larger pictures to be obtained would present too much weight to be stopped and started with the requisite rapidity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Lydgate was ambitious above all to contribute towards enlarging the scientific, rational basis of his profession. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Randolph