extend - use in sentences

Object

  • scope: The Proceeds of Crime Act and the introduction of the Assets Recovery Agency have extended the scope and targeting of these powers.
  • invitation: Payne took very full advantage of the invitation extended by the colonial cousin, who wanted somebody to cheer him up.
  • deadline: The League extended the deadline to 31 December 1919.
  • functionality: Extend the functionality of EQ so that your implementation of Sfl will also test for equality of tuples.
  • period: There is no power to extend the 56 day period.
  • welcome: From 12:00 to 18:00 St Francis extends a very warm welcome to the 6 th Christmas tree festival.

Preposition: over

  • hectare: The Aber and Llanfairfechan Commons, covered by the agreement, extends over 2,800 hectares.

Adjective complement

  • nation-wide: To meet demand, distribution was extended nation-wide at the end of 2000.
  • abstract: Theory in a Complex World: Agent-Based Simulations of Geographic Systems An extended abstract by Catherine Dibble.

Modifying Another Word

  • indefinitely: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ( NPT ) was indefinitely extended in May, 1995.
  • far: And surely the concept itself can't be extended very far?

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: The bay windows are extended down into the basement.

Preposition: beyond

  • boundary: This, of course, is a vast field that extends far beyond the boundaries of traditional art history or esthetics.

Present participle complement

  • exist: Teaching and learning build on and extend existing literacy practices.

Preposition: in

  • direction: Beyond its core, the city extends in eight directions.

Infinitive complement

  • cater: The Center originally operated from 8.30am to 4.30pm every day but that has now been extended to cater for the needs of part-time students.
  • cover: Over time the database will be extended to cover all of the UK.
  • accommodate: The Wolverhampton campus which incorporates the Compton campus has been recently extended to accommodate the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences.
  • include: Crucially in 2002 the RSS standard was extended to include media files.
  • allow: This can be extended to allow several people to be the interviewer and the interviewee!

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