Expanded

Examples

• Sloppy had gradually expanded with his description into a stare and a vacant grin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yorke, she rose, she grew tall, she expanded and refined almost to flame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If this extra cool air is used for cooling another batch of air under pressure, the latter upon expansion becomes still colder than the first batch expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At one time we employed several thousand men; and since then the works have been greatly expanded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He stood before her, his hands in his pockets, his chest sturdily expanded under its vivid waistcoat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the upper air may be more condensed by cold than the lower air by pressure; the lower more expanded by heat than the upper for want of pressure. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If we take a hot dish and put ice cream in it, it cracks because the dish when hot has expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the tiny particles that make up the dish have absorbed some heat and have expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Weller shook his head, and his red cheeks expanded with the laughter that was endeavouring to find a vent. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When a bird rises from the ground it leaps up with head stuck out and expanded tail, so that the body is in the position of a boy’s kite when thrown up. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Refrigeration is at present its most natural and obvious use, and it is claimed that eleven gallons of the material when gradually expanded has the refrigerating power of one ton of ice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Meanwhile a great plague swept the world, and at his death this renewed and expanded empire of his crumpled up again like a blown-out bladder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,--with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The air is thus expanded to double its volume; and supposing the supply cylinder to be half the size of the other, the air, when expanded, will completely fill the larger cylinder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And I hope it is not at all unlikely that he may expand (as a clerk of your acquaintance has expanded) into a partner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is then compressed, cooled while under pressure, and then expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The expanded air forces the cylinder upwards, valves open, and it passes from the cylinder, and again enters the regenerator. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Only a blossom here and there expanded pale and delicate amidst a knot of faded leaves. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Roman power was expanding, and as it expanded these old class oppositions of the early Latin community were becoming unmeaning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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