Sentence examples for expand meaning from inspiring English sources

During prolonged, vigorous exercise, the blood vessels in your legs expand, meaning that more blood moves through them.

"Space-time itself can expand, meaning that matter at different locations in space-time will be moving apart faster than the speed of light," Percival explains.

With the retail outlook bleak, many stores are more apt this year to scale back or close than expand, meaning not only will new space be hard to fill, but there may also be new vacancies in existing space as well, real estate developers said.

While Welsh-medium education, driven by parental demand, has continued to expand (meaning that almost a quarter of Welsh pupils are now functionally bilingual – a tremendous achievement), numbers taking a GCSE in MFL have declined from 55% of the cohort in 1995 to 22% in 2013.

Furthermore, existing pipelines connecting the two countries can be upgraded and expanded, meaning that Iran could be linked to Europe's pipeline infrastructure.

The pun expands meaning and possibility.

The handwritten telegrams that accompany his Disasters of War (typically, "I was there. This is what I saw") are both integral to the prints and a terse model of expanded meaning.

The reliability metrics defined here take on an expanded meaning in which the underlying concept of failure in traditional reliability analysis is replaced by the notion of intervention.

How's it apply to you and your husband?" "Well," she begins earnestly, "with us, it has a slightly expanded meaning.

A document that said everything — that had no particular meaning, but various and expanding meanings — would say nothing; it would be not a document but a kaleidoscope or a Rorschach test.

And as the 100-minute play (no intermission) unfolds, the various possibilities of Mr. Oram's environment expand in meaning.