How to Use expander in a Sentence

expander

noun

• Sipser and Spielman worked out how to turn an expander graph into a code.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• There was plenty of space to pack everything on our list, even without the expanders.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• Though many random graphs end up being expanders, expanders don’t have to be random.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2024
• Stolen were a battery kit, electric saw, right angle drill and power expander.
  — cleveland, 26 Mar. 2020
• Unzipping the expander adds two inches of extra depth and a lot more packing space.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
• In that case, surgeons my place temporary expanders in the chest to hold the breast skin in place until the patient is ready.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2019
• Erdős-Rényi graphs, though not always expanders, share many of their important features.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
• For example, once Tammy got an infection in one of her expanders.
  — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2017
• Graphs that are well connected despite being sparse — having only a small number of edges — are known as expander graphs.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
• What to Consider The zippers don’t have the best grip and the expander is a bit confusing to find at first.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• What to Consider The zippers don’t open and close super smoothly, and the expander doesn’t do much.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• There are no reports of deaths associated with tissue expanders.
  — Rachel Lubitz, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• The carry-on is quite roomy as well, easily fitting a week’s worth of clothes without even using the expander thanks to the compression straps.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
• When the expander is zipped up, the luggage slides easily into almost all overhead compartments.
  — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
• As mentioned above, gaming peripheral software works great as a replacement for a text expander.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
• Karl Lenhardt developed an expander dowel locking system that tightened and loosened with a twist.
  — Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
• This tissue expander will be continuously filled with saline solution, and over time the normal skin it was placed under will stretch out.
  — Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2023
• Like water balloons filled with saline solution, the expanders slowly stretched the skin to cover the gap when the twins were separated.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 22 Oct. 2017
• Used as its maker intends, as a very quick expander, this is a fine tool for deer hunters—very accurate, loaded right up to snuff, and devastating on impact.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 18 Nov. 2019
• Time, distance, and experience turn us into editors and expanders.
  — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
• More procedures followed, including placement of tissue expanders below the skin where their foreheads joined.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 22 Oct. 2017
• But its expander provides an extra two inches all around the bag, which equates to a 25 percent increase in total interior space.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• There’s no need to stress about pairing down your travel wardrobe, as the set itself is impressively spacious thanks to 2-inch expanders in both suitcases.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
• What to Consider There's no expander, so the capacity is quite limited.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
• Since then, Wilson has had four revision surgeries and another procedure to place two new tissue expanders in her forehead.
  — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
• After a nipple-sparing prophylactic mastectomy and six months of expanders, a pair of silicone implants had been placed in my chest.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2018
• This vaporizes, driving an expander that spins a generator to produce energy.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
• There's also an expander that increases the capacity by 15 percent.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2023
• This four-way shoe widener and expander is shaped specifically for wide feet, allowing those with EE size feet to properly fit into a pair of shoes.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 21 May 2021
• So here goes with a far from complete itemization of the year’s great conversation starters — and continuers and expanders — in the New York theater.
  — Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016