Example sentences for: expansive

How can you use “expansive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some people who dine out often and are wine drinkers tell Prudie that when feeling expansive, they let the grand total determine the tip.

  • Leading north from the Piazza del Duomo, the huge cross-shaped shopping arcade of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele is a splendid steel and glass monument to the expansive commercial spirit of the 19th century, and a prototype of today’s shopping mall.

  • Plagued by corruption and incompetence, and drained of manpower and ships by such adventurism as the dispatch of the ill-fated Armada against England in 1588, Spain was unable to defend her expansive interests.

  • It now goes to a conference committee, where it must be reconciled with a Senate version that does not include expansive right-to-sue provisions.

  • This manmade artery linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, allowed a much quicker journey time from Europe to the Middle East, India, and the Far East when it was opened in 1869, a great aid to the Western European powers in managing their expansive Empires.


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