Expanding

Examples

• By the year 1880 the standard form of marine engine for large powers had become the compound double cylinder type, expanding steam from an initial pressure as high as 90 pounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Nothing's the matter, Sir,' replied the boy, expanding his mouth to the whole breadth of his countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In the new world of invention mind has breathed into matter, and a new and expanding creation unfolds itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A vulcanite or other strip is easily affected by differences of temperature, expanding and contracting by reason of the minutest changes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And it was an empire still vigorously expanding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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.
• This can be done by mixing a little soda in the flour, because the heat of the oven causes the soda to give off bubbles of gas, and these in expanding make the heavy mass slightly porous. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The ink is forced up the tube by the expanding air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And scarcer, says Mrs. Rouncewell, expanding her stomacher to its utmost limits, than it formerly was! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now, hearken to me, she said, her delicate voice expanding into firmness by a force which was other than physical. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This dispenses with auxiliary refrigerants, and causes the expanding gases to supply the cold required for their own liquefaction by an entirely mechanical process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To prevent the expanding gases from driving through the crevices of the breech block, expanding or swelling rings, known as gas checks, are arranged on the front of the breech block. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At the moment the down stroke is completed the compressed mixture is ignited, and, expanding, drives the piston before it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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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