How to Use expansion in a Sentence

expansion

noun
  • This book is an expansion of a lecture series.
  • The league is undergoing expansion.
  • The new hires is part of a rapid expansion at 33 & West as of late.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And there are a lot of plans for expansion of that in the future.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • One of the largest changes is the expansion of the banquet hall to be be able to seat up to 300 guests.
    — Judy Pochel, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The expansion means that a lot more people can choose to mess around with SGE.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The news comes at a time of great change and expansion at Walt Disney World.
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Nashville is the only expansion team to earn points in Frisco with a win and a draw in 2020.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • That expansion came over the objection of the court's chief justice at the time.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • To this point, the returns have been in brand expansion and awareness.
    — Brett Knight, Forbes, 2 Feb. 2025
  • There was some expansion and one new studio entry while most of the rest of the field is made up of holdovers from the end of last year.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025
  • And Willoughby said there may still be hope for expansion for more ice down the road, if the money comes in.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Griner briefly played with Monique Billings, who the Valkyries selected in the expansion draft.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The rapid expansion of the hotel chain sparked the Pritzker dynasty.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The expansion of the Orange Bowl, however, was not just a white man’s game.
    — Kate Aguilar / Made By History, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That’s raising questions about who will bear the costs of its expansion.
    — Saul Elbein, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But its time of rapid expansion and growth arrived a few years later.
    — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
  • Rebirth boasts massive expansions to the remake project and the series as a whole.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Patches of this plant will increase in size through the expansion of the rhizome system.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • Goshen was founded in the 1870s as part of the expansion of the Central Pacific Railroad.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And then things start coming from there — salaries, expansion.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • The price of Shell stocks have hit record highs, buoyed by the prospect that the war’s expansion could disrupt Middle East oil production and trade flows.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The rapid expansions mean millions of dollars in revenue for Hazel.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The industry, bent on expansion, turned a deaf ear to these warnings.
    — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • At the same time, Stern drove a dramatic expansion of the NBA’s global footprint.
    — TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This can be in the form of a part-time job, a side income or just shoring up cash reserves before every step of expansion.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Not only is Jupiter—the planet of expansion—wrapping up its time in your sign, marking the end of a 12-year (!) cycle.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Lightfall – This is the next expansion that will be out in February 2023.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The game’s success has lead to multiple expansions and placement on retail shelves next to board game classics like Monopoly and Clue.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The federal government pays 90% of the costs of Idaho’s Medicaid expansion.
    — Sarah Cutler and, Idaho Statesman, 12 Mar. 2025

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