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Example sentences for "enlarging"

Lexicographically close words:
enlarged; enlargement; enlargements; enlarges; enlargeth; enlever; enlighten; enlightened; enlightener; enlighteneth
  1. In 1840 the court extended the liberty of the poor debtor by enlarging the prison bounds to four squares, probably because the law had relaxed its hold upon him.

  2. I abstain, however, from enlarging upon this topic, having no inclination to promote the increase of bachelors.

  3. Still more has the present war demonstrated the necessity of maintaining, and even enlarging our Military Academy.

  4. When the effect of the public land in depressing land values, in other words in enabling producers to retain the more of their product, was seen, private as well as public agencies might aid in enlarging the scope of that effect.

  5. Were legislation direct, the circle of its functions would speedily be narrowed; certainly they would never pass legitimate bounds at the urgency of a class interested in enlarging its own powers and in increasing the volume of public outlay.

  6. Our diversified productions, however, are increasing in such unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial relations.

  7. We should estimate the distance of the cameras from the enlarging apparatus to be about fourteen or fifteen feet in the instance we saw, and when the canvas was taken down, a distinct outline of the image was visible on its surface.

  8. The lamp is outside the enlarging room, and three large lenses, or condensers, on three sides of the light, permit the making of three enlargements at one end at the same time.

  9. Leeuwenhoek mentions the case of a woman whose leg had been enlarging with glandular bodies for some years.

  10. Thus, if its original colour be blue, and the insect previously to enlarging it be put upon red cloth, the circles at the end and two stripes down the middle will be red.

  11. To stuff our minds with what is simply trivial, simply curious, or that which at best has but a low nutritive power, this is to close our minds to what is solid and enlarging and spiritually sustaining.

  12. The introduction of tracery gave great facilities for enlarging the width of the windows; and we accordingly find those of two or more lights gradually superseding the lancet.

  13. In both we have His method of gradually unveiling the truth to a susceptible soul, beginning with symbol and a hint, gradually enlarging the hint and translating the symbol; and finally unveiling Himself as the Giver and the Gift.

  14. One other suggestion may be made without enlarging upon it.

  15. The fissures in the bark, which are caused by the enlarging of the tree by the formation of new wood under the bark, are deeper at the bottom of the tree than at the top, the tree being younger and the bark thinner the nearer to the top we go.

  16. On the whole, it is an excellent edition, and cannot be perused without greatly enlarging one's knowledge and deepening one's interest in these unique epistolary writings.

  17. How would you like to go to France for a few months, go this autumn, and go the rounds of the factories there, while Dempster is enlarging the plant, and bring us back your ideas?

  18. Dempster already had an interest in a motor company, and it was Baird who had suggested to him the easy possibility of enlarging the Dempster factory so that it would be one of the biggest concerns in the States.

  19. If this is true, how do you propose to improve the condition of things by enlarging slavery, by spreading it out and making it bigger?

  20. The war continued, and at the next session the President renewed his request for the appropriation, enlarging the amount, I think, to three millions.

  21. The military and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal and improving the Illinois River is presented in the report of Colonel Webster to the Secretary of War, and now transmitted to Congress.

  22. The attention of Congress during the last session was engaged to some extent with a proposition for enlarging the water communication between the Mississippi River and the northeastern seaboard, which proposition, however, failed for the time.

  23. Morvilliers then resumed his discourse, enlarging upon the treacherous designs of Francis, Duke of Brittany, with whom Charles had lately sworn brotherhood at the very moment when he was the honoured guest of King Louis at Tours.

  24. The King, assisted by his Queen, at once set about enlarging and embellishing the mansion, and laying out new gardens.

  25. She devoted, however, a great deal of care and expense to the improving and enlarging of the Palace gardens--as to which we shall have more to say when we come to describe them.

  26. Besides enlarging the gardens round about the Palace, Queen Anne greatly extended the area of the park-like enclosed grounds attached to Kensington Palace.

  27. Rabbinical writings are {118} never weary of enlarging upon the magical power and knowledge of Solomon.

  28. Already his ambition extended beyond the present limits of his domain; already he contemplated the possibility of reclaiming some of the outlying waste and enlarging his borders.

  29. She knew the Duchy for a bad enemy, and perhaps at the bottom of her conservative heart felt no particular delight at the spectacle of Newtake enlarging its borders.

  30. The mobile dark room carried on the trailer of each unit was equipped with tanks, enlarging camera, printing boxes, and other necessary apparatus.


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