enlarge
verb (used with object)
to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to.
were enlarging
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past progressiveof enlarge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His joints were enlarging to grapefruit size in flare-ups that hampered his sales work.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 22, 2021
He said members of his crew were enlarging the crawl space and digging deeper into the basement floor to make room for additional apartments.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2018
One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
By week's end the U.S. had asked Pan American to act as carrier, and Castro workmen were enlarging and improving the Varadero airport.
From Time Magazine Archive
And while the conjectures of the men of science were adding regions undreamt of to the physical universe, the discoverers were enlarging the territories of the earth itself.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
