enlarge - use in sentences

Object

  • click: To enlarge the full text screen click on the by the document.
  • image: Can the visitor click on them for more info or to enlarge the image?
  • thumbnail: Picture by Mrs. P. Click to enlarge the thumbnail.
  • hole: Take care not to enlarge the rivet hole in the tool head itself.
  • text: How do I enlarge the text on the site?

Used with why or when

  • when: Anti-aliased fonts should be avoided because they enlarge poorly when a screen magnification program is used.

Modifying Another Word

  • considerably: Around the beginning of the first century BCE, the settlement was considerably enlarged.
  • greatly: On the edges of Lagoon III there is a growing area of reeds, greatly enlarged by a major project in 2000.
  • substantially: The workhouse was substantially enlarged in 1908 and could then accommodate 440 inmates.
  • subsequently: The yellow warning panels were subsequently enlarged to cover the whole cab front.
  • newly: The new rules will operate throughout the newly enlarged EU.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • upon: A vast body of Greco-Roman knowledge of herbs was preserved and enlarged upon by the Arabs.

Preposition: after

  • armistice: The Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of over 700 graves from the Battlefields between the Somme and the Luce.

Infinitive complement

  • accommodate: The Bloody Tower was enlarged to accommodate Ralegh's family.
  • encompass: The scope of the conference will be enlarged to encompass experimental measurements and their relationship to computational techniques.

Preposition: by

  • addition: In 1894, the fleet was enlarged by the addition of the Geneva Cross, another purpose-built paddle-steamer.

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