expansive - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Deflation effectively made debt more expansive and, as Fisher explained, this reinforced deflation again in a vicious spiral.

Modifies a noun

  • rugby: They played the kind of expansive rugby with which he identified most.
  • gesture: Following them, Hermes makes an expansive gesture to point the final nymph on her way.
  • lawn: An expansive lawn, with the enticing pool ideally situated to take in the glorious view, completes the picture.
  • mood: At dinner the next day, Hitler was again in an expansive mood.
  • landscape: Its 28mm wide-angle lens will easily capture expansive landscapes or group shots.
  • beach: The site is about 2 miles from the expansive sandy beach at Perranporth, which makes a car a benefit for these properties.

Modifying Another Word

  • quite: Psychonauts is a 3D platformer at its core, but its gameplay will actually be quite expansive.
  • so: They're so expansive tho, aren't they?
  • very: The home page features a selection of DVDs along with a very expansive list of categories to assist in navigation.
  • too: If your legs are like limp spaghetti, contact time will be too expansive and running speed will slow.
  • typically: Itâs typically expansive, capably demonstrating the shifting focus of their latest material.
  • rather: Plenty of foliage adorns the sides of tracks, the draw distance is rather expansive and its framerate has nary a hitch.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The views become ever more expansive with views into great corries once filled with glaciers.
  • grow: When things went well he grew expansive, his tone avuncular.
  • feel: The rest of the course feels more expansive as a result.

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