Example sentences for: expansive

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

  • Coptic Christians founded an expansive community for prayer and contemplation here in the fourth century a.d. when many monks chose to live their lives as hermits.

  • ..there was spontaneous applause in the church and on the expansive meadow of Hyde Park jammed with thousands of people who were watching the service on giant television screens."

  • Look for value-subtracted to establish itself in metaphorically expansive circumstances.

  • Banks' choice of a starting point seems to invoke an expansive notion of the intellectual that includes some (but not all) academics, novelists, journalists, composers, artists, programmers, pundits, and poets--an idea I think muddies more than it clarifies.

  • The best one can hope to do in a book of this kind is to take a snapshot of the words and senses which seem to characterize our age and which a reader in fifty or a hundred years' time might be unable to understand fully (even if these words were entered in standard dictionaries) without a more expansive explanation of their social, political, or cultural context.


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