enlarging

Example Sentences

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The governor also proposed a 14-week paid pregnancy disability leave for TK-12 and community college employees starting or enlarging their families.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

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

"Assistants work for their deputies, enlarging their ideas," Le Pen said.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 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