Sentence examples for expand against from inspiring English sources

This forces the shell to expand against the wall of the borehole.

This will cause the fastener to expand against the back of the surface.

Upon application of potential difference, hot segments expand against the cold segment of disc and make the cold disc rotate about its center.

Two adjoining wooden pieces in an object may expand against each other and knock themselves out of line, and the glue holding pieces together may dry up and cease to bind the parts together.

June 12 (Reuters) - A plan for shops, restaurants, hotels and thousands of homes near the Grand Canyon's celebrated South Rim is pitting a tiny Arizona town seeking to expand against opponents who say the development will mar one of the world's natural wonders.

In those instants, he said, the hot plasma is like a bubble expanding against the pressure of nothingness.

Lemon grass's aroma expanded against a backdrop of cream; foie gras and game were sealed up in steamed dumplings.

The deceleration parameter is a measure of the rate at which the expansion of the universe is slowing down as the universe expands against gravity.

His patent covers a portable bulkhead with "a hollow flexible rim which is adapted to be expanded against the inner walls of the tunnel to form a watertight joint".

This thermal energy raises the temperature and pressure of the gases within the engine, and the high-pressure gas then expands against the mechanical mechanisms of the engine.

Stents models were first expanded against a simplified arterial plaque, with a solid mechanics analysis, and then subjected to a fluid flow simulation under pulsatile physiological conditions.