Sentence examples for expanded or contracted from inspiring English sources

The length of the weapon expanded or contracted with each telling of the story.

They accomplish this with chromatophores, pigment-containing structures, that are linked to the squid's nervous system and can be expanded or contracted at will.

Most of them find her in doodle mode, drawing clusters of architecture and tiny figures that can be expanded or contracted to suit any scale or purpose.

In the animated graphic, floating bubbles, each displaying a photograph of a celebrity, expanded or contracted depending on the volume of Twitter activity about each star.

That way even if the roof expanded or contracted with the heat, it would not affect the waterproofing and would keep the bottle intact for many years to com".

Every month managers in both manufacturing and private services are asked whether their firms' output, employment, orders and the like have expanded or contracted (compared with the previous month).

IS MERCOSUR expanding or contracting?

It is not unusual to expand or contract these security perimeters".

It allows ministers to expand or contract the benefits bill for whatever presentational purpose suits them.

The Federal Reserve Board, for example, can buy or sell government securities, thereby expanding or contracting the money supply (see monetary policy).

Some of the world's best boxers could not expand or contract into those weights and are unrepresented here.