Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Tech companies invent new ways of doing things, but as they expand, often metastatically, they tend to shift their focus toward protecting their booming business rather than investing in new disruptive ones.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2014

It then abruptly left him, to make way, apparently metastatically, for enteralgia coupled with diarrhœa.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.