Sentence examples for Expansive from inspiring English sources

He could make wry jokes and become expansive after hours in the bar, but he wrote with dedicated seriousness, weighing and polishing every phrase.

Caorle, a few miles further east, was immortalised by Ernest Hemingway in his 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, so it is tempting to stop off at its expansive lagoon.

Explanations run from the practical -- a talent gap with the Galaxy – to the tactical: Portland can't make the adjustment from its cozy 110-by-74 pitch to the expansive 120-by-75 that greets them in SoCal.

Netflix has Marco Polo, its hugely expensive and expansive historical epic set in the 13th century, launching on 13 December.

The expansive workbenches are clutter-free, save for a few parcels of Aboriginal artefacts.

Previously, they'd relied upon a solid defence and the long ball up to Wyn Davies, but the manager Joe Harvey decided it was time for a more expansive style of play, hence Macdonald's arrival, along with that of Terry Hibbitt from Leeds.

Like a teacher with a student, she was often "pressing him to be more expansive and communicative," but found that "counterproductive".

Warner, however, soon became more expansive, passing his century in 92 balls and finishing with 19 fours and five sixes from 133 balls in his ODI career best before he skied a slower ball well which was well held by the Afghan captain, Mohammad Nabi, off Shapoor Zadran.

India got an expansive railway system far in advance of any other Asian nation, but Britain retained its grip on the technology as the supplier of all its equipment, which meant once again that the profits were repatriated.

His misgivings about what the Islamic State has become led him to speak to the Guardian in a series of expansive conversations, which offer unique insight into its enigmatic leader and the nascent days of the terror group – stretching from 2004, when he met Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Camp Bucca, to 2011, when the Iraqi insurgency crossed the border into Syria.

It was an innovative and expansive attempt to do something new with online sports coverage.