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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