Blurs and blots expanded and contracted.
Each hose can be expanded and contracted independently.
One of the tanks expanded and contracted as it was filled and emptied, reaching a maximum diameter of 200 feet.
Recessions came and went, ad pages expanded and contracted, publications started and went under — but nothing disturbed the basic model.
Over the next two days, the spacecraft passed through the boundary four more times as the solar system's "termination shock" bubble expanded and contracted.
Open space has expanded and contracted, neighbouring buildings have come and gone – the force of the white stone churches lies in their persistence among change.
He curved his arms over his body, forming a circle that expanded and contracted, both above him and as a shadow thrown onto the theater's back wall.
Ms. Greie-Fuchs arranged her sounds into repeating patterns that expanded and contracted, keeping the rhythms the same while changing the tempo.
School places aren't tins of baked beans on a supermarket shelf, to be expanded and contracted at will, and simply inventing new types of schools isn't a golden bullet when it comes to raising standards.
Mark Seibert, a research associate at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Pasadena, said Mira expanded and contracted every 332 days, making it periodically visible with the naked eye from Earth.
Over the years the band has expanded and contracted, but its core has been consistent, and so has its foundation in soul jazz, crisp funk and greasy organ-trio groove.
