How to Use expedition in a Sentence

expedition

noun

• All of the Americans from the expedition to Aconcagua are gone.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The leader and two other adults at the expedition killed the bobcat.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 July 2023
• On most seafloor drilling expeditions, progress is slow, with rocky cores hauled on deck every three hours or so.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Ramseys say the globe-trotting expedition is the first of its kind done in an electric vehicle, or a car of any kind.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• For 89 days, Tony Romeo and his team had nothing to show for their three-month expedition to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• But there are signs of strain among both the Sherpa guides and expedition support workers.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• Seabourn, Viking and Scenic are three cruise lines that recently added submarines to some of their expedition ships.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Ellsworth paid for the expedition with his personal funds.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 24 June 2023
• And, of course, as this is an expedition, there will be plenty of off-ship activities, too.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
• Keeping the size of your expedition modest translates into more one-on-one time with your guides and frankly, no waiting.
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The early British expeditions had thousands of porters carrying tables, chairs, the finest Irish whiskey, and the best food available from India and back home.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
• On a nine-week expedition, a 25-person crew battled malaria and earthquakes, and one student researcher even had a leech stuck in their eye for 33 hours.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Debris from the Titan, the submersible that disappeared on an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, was found nearby the ship, which sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 June 2023
• Enlarge / Drawing of a trade expedition to Punt during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut.
  — Miriam Fauzia, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2023
• The best Weeknd songs are expeditions into the bleary morality of the middle of the night, a conflict between wise inklings and disastrous impulses.
  — Vulture, 30 June 2023
• And that’s where Van Ord, who had accompanied him on the expedition, sprang into action.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• This will be one of the greatest expeditions in human history.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Titan submersible vanished in June on an expedition to see the Titanic and briefly captured a large swath of the country’s attention.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• In 1925, this Siberian husky was part of an expedition in Alaska called the serum run, the goal of which was to bring life-saving medicine to young people in the remote town of Nome that were threatened by diphtheria.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• This works in part because a Costco trip is more of an expedition than a quick supermarket or drugstore run.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Baltic expedition is an 11-day journey across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• The nascent shipyard, which recently opened in Tolkamer in the Netherlands, just unveiled not one but three new expedition vessels.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
• But researchers almost did not locate the rare species, Kempton said, noting that the images of the echidna were not found until looking at the last SD card on the final day of the long expedition.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
• These kinds of submersibles are valuable for conducting deep-sea expeditions like the ones that discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
• The real expedition fun will start in October, when plans call for Pursuit to head south from Barbados.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• In preparation, the men sought an English-speaking seamstress who could repair their gloves and boot soles during the expedition.
  — Natalie Schachar, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Lipman, who in addition to being a physician and expert in wilderness medicine has gone on expeditions in big mountains around the globe, prefers a chunk of salami and a big brick of hard cheese.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• The 25-person crew set out on a nine-week expedition, according to the report, with the crew facing scares such as malaria, earthquakes and one member having a leech stuck in their eye for 33 hours.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
• In China, three astronauts launched to begin a six-month expedition on the Tiangong space station.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Last year, a BBC documentary crew joined the expedition.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024