Example sentences for: expedition

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

  • 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).

  • In 1912, for the sake of a few emperor penguin eggs, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and two members of Scott's ill-fated polar expedition endured what Cherry-Garrard called “extremity of suffering” from which only “madness or death may give relief.”

  • Time 's exclusive: the tale of American astronaut Michael Foale's harrowing Mir expedition.

  • In 1848 the Dutch landed a second military expedition in the north of Bali.

  • At the park’s eastern exit, you’ll see where geologist James Hector, member of an 1858 expedition mapping the major passes through the Rockies, was kicked senseless by a pack horse — thus the name of the pass.


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