expansive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with expansive, each labelled with its topic.

• Steel is expansive in summer heat, so the bridge deck rides on rollers that let it creep sideways.

  Architecture

• Mountain air is expansive at altitude, which is why sealed snack bags puff up like balloons on the pass.

  Travel

• The bellows of the old field camera are expansive, stretching to twice their folded length for close work.

  Photography

• Yeast dough is expansive in a warm kitchen, doubling in the bowl within an hour of being covered.

  Cooking

• During the expansive years after the war, factories added a shift nearly every quarter and still ran short of workers.

  Economics

• Water is unusually expansive when it freezes, which is why an overlooked pipe splits on the first hard night of January.

  Science

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