How to Use enlargement in a Sentence

enlargement

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  • The plans call for an enlargement of the company's offices.
  • Symptoms include enlargement of the lymph nodes.
  • Stoltenberg would have been so certain in their rhetoric about the enlargement.
    — Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Some of the drugs are now used to treat male pattern baldness or prostate enlargement.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
  • The fine details of the cart itself look pretty muddy due to the enlargement.
    — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
  • My stomach pain was caused by the enlargement of my liver.
    — Jackie Terribile, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Other symptoms can include mild enlargement of the liver or spleen, swollen glands, or swelling at the site of the bite.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020
  • Letters used in the headline are three feet tall, and are an exact enlargement of the type used by The Times in front page headlines.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
  • The excess growth hormone causes enlargement of the soft tissues of the face, including the ears, the nose and the tongue, as well as the soft tissues of the hands and feet.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • That quality has more to do with the enlargement of our spirit.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Plans for its enlargement would be debated for decades, to this day.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The strains from enlargement have inevitably changed the bloc, but are unlikely to destroy it, Lehne said.
    — Steven Erlanger, Orange County Register, 25 Mar. 2017
  • But the enlargement of the tournament from 24 to 32 teams encouraged the Kiwis to form a joint bid with Australia.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • Three or four times a night is not common in young men without a reason such as prostate enlargement.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • These small, grainy and sometimes blurry black-and-whites show the train and are a stark contrast to Fusco’s enlargements, in sharp color.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
  • There have, however, been setbacks in the process of enlargement.
    — Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Sea moss is rich in minerals, which can help fight prostate enlargement.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Yet court-packing could set off a chain reaction of court enlargement every time the Senate and the White House changed hands.
    — Michael McGough, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Morton’s neuroma, the enlargement of the nerves between your foot bones, feels similar, though the pain is closer to the outside of the foot, at the third and fourth toes.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2019
  • Persistent edema can lead to the enlargement of the heart muscle, known as cardiomegaly.
    — Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
  • Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system and can cause lymph node enlargement as well.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Past enlargements have shown the enormous benefits both for the accession countries and the EU.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This will result in the enlargement of blood vessels near the skin’s surface, causing redness, swelling and itching.
    — Patricia A. MacCulloch, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Victims were beaten with baseball bats, forced to obtain abortions and breast enlargements, and were tattooed with the name of their pimp.
    — Ane Mathieson and Alexi Ashe Meyers, Marie Claire, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The church also built a new educational wing, an enlargement of the sanctuary and the chapel wing.
    — Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • The moment when Gerty limps away is—for us, if not quite for Bloom—one of great sympathetic enlargement.
    — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s not compatible with the opening of an enlargement process right now.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Infected prairie dogs in the 2003 U.S. outbreak had rashes and lymph node enlargement.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • This happens to me often: Travel appears to offer an enlargement of time.
    — Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Compared with the last major round of EU enlargement, in 2004, expanding EU membership will have even bigger consequences for how body will be financed and governed.
    — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2024

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