Old vessel, extremely dangerous, blows up

Usage examples of expands.

Not for millions of years, until the sun expands and fills up the inside of the barrier.

Line, have a secret, curled-up dimension, and if this dimension expands to an observably large size.

Since temperature goes down as the universe expands, we would expect that the futile attempt to squeeze the universe to sub-Planck size means that the temperature stops rising, hits a maximum, and then begins to decrease.

The water expands into steam, and the pressure rises dramatically, finally breaching the reactor vessel, causing it to physically explode.

This dwelling, then, has floor space that expands as the cube of the asteroid size.

Every time we escalate our effort, every time we expand our attack on the Chtorran infestation, it expands and adapts to include our latest responses.