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Example sentences for: expedition

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The most significant expedition under Manuel’s flag was Vasco da Gama’s legendary sea voyage from Lisbon in the summer of 1497 — immortalized in The Lusiads (1572), the epic poem by Portugal’s national poet, Luís de Camões (1524–1580).
A bold and cheerful Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, hefts a rifle on a hunting expedition.
On a recent expedition by car, I noted a large number of roads with names like P Avenue, Q Avenue, and the like, and everyone is familiar with the street names in Washington, DC , that reflect the same sort of thing.
Between 1519 and 1522 another Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.
The famous set of frescoes in the tomb of Prince Zhanghuai depicts an animated polo match, a hunting expedition, a reception for foreign diplomats, and (most movingly) a scene in a court cloister with a young concubine looking longingly at a bird in flight.