How to Use expansion in a Sentence

expansion

noun
  • This book is an expansion of a lecture series.
  • The league is undergoing expansion.
  • The new hires is part of a rapid expansion at 33 & West as of late.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The expansion means that a lot more people can choose to mess around with SGE.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Rebirth boasts massive expansions to the remake project and the series as a whole.
    Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The price of Shell stocks have hit record highs, buoyed by the prospect that the war’s expansion could disrupt Middle East oil production and trade flows.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The rapid expansions mean millions of dollars in revenue for Hazel.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The deals with both Simmons and the Duke and Duchess were a part of Spotify’s expansion into podcasting.
    Charna Flam, Variety, 17 June 2023
  • According to the New York Post, Arnett was first told the expansion might cut through part of her property.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There are also some new projects and expansions in Alaska and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • More early finds like these fossils in Asia will help shed light on the details of early human expansion out of Africa.
    Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, in recent years the components have been more divergent than in any expansion on record.
    Rachel Lin, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Broad announces massive expansion that will increase gallery space by 70%.
    Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The expansion of agriculture appeared to be hurting forests in Africa.
    Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • There’s already a spinoff program in Panama, and there are plans for further expansion.
    Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Amtrak supports expansion in the state, with plans to tie into some 5,000 miles of existing Ohio tracks.
    The Enquirer, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Overseas expansion is considered a major part of the league’s present and future.
    Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • This expansion, though, also helped create the seeds of the current conflict, as writers felt shortchanged by the streaming boom.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That’s far above the 0.9% expansion predicted for Europe.
    David McHugh, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Google’s global expansion has helped leave more cities than Zurich in housing turmoil.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Among the most important changes that the site’s most prolific users and protesters have clamored for are the expansion of Bluesky’s Trust and Safety Team.
    Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • The expansion will increase the production capacity at the studios in the Leavesden area, on the outskirts of London, by more than 50%.
    Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • One of the landfills, Central Maui, was nearing capacity and had a more than $17 million expansion project planned to start next year.
    Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Stracke says with Ronaldo in the mix, the company is aiming for further global expansion.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 July 2023
  • This year’s edition saw several changes in the format, from accepting African films for the first time in its four-year history to an expansion of the length of the program to 10 months.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The main game has sold more than 25 million copies; the expansion, despite only being out for a little over a week, has already sold 3 million copies.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2023
  • At the time, the factory was one one of the largest hosiery facilities in the world and was projected to have 570 employees when the expansion was completed.
    Andrew Moreau, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • So far, Dollywood has done all that and then some; the park sees over 2.5 million guests each year, and with even more expansions planned for the future, Dollywood won't be slowing down any time soon.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The brand has announced the expansion its Love Delivered initiative to New Orleans families in search of doula care.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The progress that people talk about is often cast in terms of investment in renewables and expansion in the capacity of solar and wind power around the world.
    David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024

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