Expands

Examples

• One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When the steam pressure varies in this flat tube its coil expands or contracts, and in moving the index hand over the scale indicates the degree of pressure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the air is heated by the fire it expands, and is pushed up the chimney by the cold air which is constantly entering through loose windows and doors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the tusk grows in length on the living elephant it also expands; but the cells grow larger and less compact as the tusk expands in circumference. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The liquid air in the interior chamber vaporizes gradually, and escaping through the outwardly opening valve at the top, expands around the air space surrounding the inner vessel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The cat expands her wicked mouth and snarls at him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Tom, Dick, and Harry are very fond of it, as it expands their lungs and quenches their thirSt But there, I am only jesting. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As the air in _A_ is heated, it expands and forces the drop of ink up the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One has but to remember that bottles of water burst when they freeze, and that ice floats on water like wood, to know that water expands on freezing or on solidifying. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As it expands and occupies more space, its pressure falls and it exerts less force against the matter with which it comes in contact. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As the water becomes warmer it expands and rise in the narrow tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The greater part of the debris and rubbish brought down from the mountain slopes by the spring rains owes its origin to the fact that water expands when it freezes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the water is heated, it expands and forces its way up the narrow tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Air expands greatly when heated (Fig. 3), but since air is practically invisible, we are not ordinarily conscious of any change in it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Alcohol expands more than water, and water more than mercury. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When the gun is fired, the button is forced into the cone, and expands the lead, which thus fills up the grooves and gives a spiral direction to the bullet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The gas expands with the heat of the oven, raising the dough still more. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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