Words similar to expedition

Example sentences for: expedition

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The apartments beyond are hung with Flemish tapestries recording Charles V’s Tunis Expedition of 1535, one of them showing an upside-down map of the Mediterranean.
Just as the conquest of the Canaries was reaching its climax, Christopher Columbus (Cristobal Colón in Spanish) was planning his historic expedition in search of a sea route to the East Indies.
The questioning would not be the kind of "who were your sources" fishing expedition that should trouble anyone who worries about a free press.
Even then, the expedition can take as long as twelve hours and involves a lot of slipping and sliding on stony slopes.
Since this linguistic-statistical study of an obsession might well prove to be an important contribution to psycholinguistics, I decided to make a larger sample of watery words, choosing the straightforward journals of Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton, who led an expedition across the western interior of Australia in 1873-4.