enlarging

Example Sentences

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But if your elastic wrapping paper has a pattern on it, stretching it this way will distort the pattern, enlarging some parts and not others.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, ports are considering extending the life of old equipment by updating technology systems or enlarging cranes so they can load and unload larger containerships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

All cells there have the inmate’s name and photo posted outside, but staffers had to take the additional step of enlarging Girardi’s photo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

The x-height can be increased without enlarging all of the text.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

In such classrooms, before students who were so anxious and uncertain of their social advancement, the enlarging lessons of the humanities seemed an irrelevance.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez