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

Here they had built a stronghold at Louisbourg, which they were enlarging and strengthening every year, to the great disgust and alarm of the New England colonies.

From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by De Mille, James