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Example sentences for "enlarge"

Lexicographically close words:
enkindle; enkindled; enkindles; enkindling; enlaced; enlarged; enlargement; enlargements; enlarges; enlargeth
  1. Omnipotence could enlarge the human faculties of Christ to the extend of is celestial office.

  2. In his last treaty, Justinian introduced some conditions which tended to enlarge and fortify the toleration of Christianity in Persia.

  3. The soil must be light enough for the potatoes, or tubers, to enlarge easily and dry enough to prevent rot or blight or other diseases.

  4. Magnify=: to make a thing larger in fact or in appearance; to enlarge the appearance of a thing so that the parts may be seen more easily.

  5. A thoroughly enlightened community can do much to enlarge the sphere of such women as are naturally wage-earners, by proper encouragement of their enterprise.

  6. With larger experience and more neighborly contact they are finding it possible to work in association for various purposes, and will doubtless enlarge their means of business credit as their progress in mutual understanding increases.

  7. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem.

  8. Here I could enlarge abundantly, and add many more instances of a like nature, but I am here only for a touch upon things.

  9. Now here I might enlarge abundantly, but that would not be tedious.

  10. But I will not enlarge to detain the reader longer from the following sheets; but shall commit both him and them to the wise dispose of God, and rest, Thine to serve thee, JOH.

  11. That is, God shall enlarge him by persuasion; for the gospel knows no other compulsion, but to force by argumentation.

  12. For as doing good abundantly, doth enlarge the heart to receive and hold more glory: so doing evil abundantly, doth enlarge the heart and soul to receive punishment so much the more.

  13. How admirably does Bunyan enlarge upon this in his 'Peaceable principles yet true.

  14. They make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments.

  15. Look to thyself then, keep it out of door, Thee 'twould entangle, and enlarge thy score.

  16. These agencies for distribution do not by their nature enlarge the farmer's economic knowledge.

  17. We have to see our typical citizen in clear light, realize his deficiencies, ignorance, and incapacity, and his possibilities of development, before we can wisely enlarge his boundaries.

  18. I purpose to enlarge it by many additions of my own, accompanying it all through with notes and illustrations.

  19. It strikes a person unacquainted with the circumstances as though Dicky, with true Aldermanic foresight, intending to enlarge his paunch with Turtle, etc.

  20. There is a very pretty Mrs FitzGerald here, her husband is related to Lord Ilchester, but our acquaintance among the English is very small and we have no wish to enlarge it.

  21. I will not attempt to enlarge upon the answers to them.

  22. I do not propose to enlarge upon the observations I have already submitted.

  23. It has been frequently referred to in debate, and I shall not enlarge upon it.

  24. Perhaps nothing has tended so much to enlarge the inequality between capital and labor as the introduction of labor-saving machinery in nearly all branches of industry.

  25. This is seen especially in the tendency to enlarge the powers of the judiciary which was the only branch of the state government in which life tenure survived.

  26. And since the court must decide what are and what are not political questions, it may enlarge or narrow the scope and meaning of the word political to suit its purposes.

  27. Evidently, then, the easiest and most practicable method of accomplishing the end which the conservative classes had in view was to enlarge the powers of the judiciary.

  28. These enlarge and elongate and make their way toward the surface of the ground.

  29. Buckingham was admiral of the fleet, and very strongly desired to enlarge the force at his command, with a view to the performing of some great exploit in the war.

  30. He was pleased with Laud's endeavors to enlarge and confirm the powers of the Church, and wished to aid him in the work.

  31. He gave them office and power, and they joined him in the efforts he made to defend and enlarge the royal prerogative, and to carry on the government by the exercise of it.

  32. Prison breakers,* also, shall be deemed accessaries after the fact, to traitors or felons whom they enlarge from prison.

  33. I should be more disposed to enlarge than abridge it, on account of their neighborhood to our Atlantic trade.

  34. The second bill proposed to amend the constitution of William and Mary college, to enlarge its sphere of science, and to make it in fact a University.

  35. As to strangers breaking prison to enlarge an offender, they should, and may be fairly considered as accessaries after the fact.

  36. The months slipped away very rapidly, and the early spring brought the dear gift of another life to gladden and enlarge our own.

  37. I will not enlarge here upon the pain and distress which this event caused to us and to the community at large.

  38. I would gladly enlarge here, did my limits allow it, upon the theme of the woman ministry, but must take up again the thread of my tale.

  39. But this being rather in the Department of Foreign Affairs, I shall not enlarge on it.

  40. Your recommendations will always meet my utmost attention, because I am persuaded that you have equally with me the desire to husband and enlarge our resources.

  41. The resolutions of the 26th of May last speak so clearly to the points necessary to be established by those laws, that I need not enlarge on them.

  42. I have a long time expected with great Impatience that you would enlarge upon the ordinary Mistakes which are committed in the Education of our Children.

  43. With what a Fluency of Invention, and Copiousness of Expression, will they enlarge upon every little Slip in the Behaviour of another?

  44. But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it every one that does not know how to think out of his Profession and particular way of Life.

  45. I might very much enlarge upon this Subject, but shall conclude it with a Story which I lately heard from one of our Spanish Officers, [3] and which may shew the Danger a Woman incurs by too great Familiarities with a Male Companion.

  46. But as this would be a dry unentertaining Piece of Criticism, and perhaps unnecessary to those who have read my first Paper, I shall not enlarge upon it.

  47. As this is a Speculation, which I have often pursued with great Pleasure to my self, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the Scale of Beings which comes within our Knowledge.

  48. Those who are acquainted with the Works of the Greek and Latin Poets which are still extant, will upon Reflection find this Observation so true, that I shall not enlarge upon it.

  49. Idolatry may be looked upon as another Error arising from mistaken Devotion; but because Reflections on that Subject would be of no use to an English Reader, I shall not enlarge upon it.

  50. Let us see to it, that, while we enlarge the superstructure, we do not neglect the foundations.

  51. It would be an easy task to enlarge upon the wonders of the sky, but how shall man describe the works of HIM "who maketh Arcturus, Orion, Pleiades, and the Chambers of the South?

  52. The field of human happiness, then, with the virtuous, seems to enlarge in proportion as a knowledge of the works and laws of the beneficent Creator is extended.

  53. The beneficial results will be more apparent if, while bathing and rubbing the chest and abdomen, pains are taken to throw back the shoulders, expand the lungs, and enlarge the chest.

  54. No one can doubt that all these views and contemplations have a direct tendency to enlarge the capacity of the mind, to stimulate its faculties, and to produce rational enjoyment.

  55. But when the light which enters the pupil is insufficient to transmit a distinct image of objects to the brain, the orbicular muscle relaxes, and the radiated one contracts, so as to enlarge the pupil.

  56. We do not enlarge but disfigure the sciences when we lose sight of their respective limits and allow them to run into one another.

  57. The categories of modality possess this peculiarity, that they do not in the least determine the object, or enlarge the conception to which they are annexed as predicates, but only express its relation to the faculty of cognition.

  58. It is not necessary to enlarge upon the views of the traditional class of critics, for theirs are the views with which most Christians now living have been familiar since their childhood.

  59. It is not the purpose of the writers of Scripture to impart physical instruction, or to enlarge the bounds of scientific knowledge.

  60. Partly he had stumped himself, as the boys say, to carry through a strenuous achievement; but mainly he wished to enlarge his sympathetic insight into fellow-lives.

  61. He must start with the native tendencies, and enlarge the pupil's entire passive and active experience.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enlarge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.