What is "expanding"

Usage examples of "expanding".

Roe was the entirely predictable culmination of a long process of articulating and expanding the rights of privacy and reproductive freedom.

Monsieur Barat went through what was obviously his personal ritualthe adjusting of the metal expanding bands that held up his shirt sleeves, the flexing of fingers, the wiping of his glasses, which he put to one side, the screwing into place of the eyeglass.

The enemy blob was expanding slowly on the screen as he moved toward the target base.

The cubby is silent except for the omnipresent ship sounds -- expanding and contracting metal from the hull, the whisper of ventilators, the hum of equipment, the occasional burp of a thruster.

Russia and China had racism, oppression, state-mandated feticide, imperialism, gulags, religious intolerance, expanding nuclear stockpiles and enough murdered dissidents and purged peasants to make the Altamont Rock Festival look like a half-filled phone booth.

But it was better than being caught below, where the pack of flimmers clustered around the base of the four growths, their air sacs expanding and contracting mightily as they strove to reach the bipedal food that had moved out of their reach.

The reason for this is that the gases escape through the bore of the block rather than take effect in expanding the bore-hole.

Each of these struggles was specific and based on immediate regional concerns in such a way that they could in no respect be linked together as a globally expanding chain of revolt.

Kant, expanding sensual inclinations and desires is just expanding heteronomy, expanding slavery, expanding addictions.

His experience on the waterfronts had given him an expertise in smuggling, extortion and money laundering, and these were the areas in which he made his money, first in Fuzhou then in Hong Kong and expanding throughout China and the Far East.

Christa sought to catch Orfide off guard, but he followed her effortlessly, matching her chromatics with abrupt modal shifts, expanding his tactics to include the full voice of his harp: all the modes, rather than the few customarily used for defense and combat.

The expanding cloud of fiery gas enveloped Narra and shook her harder than the tractor beam ever had.

Babies are capable of expanding their world to include additional surrogate nurturers and still keep their primary attachment to their mothers.

The expanding cordon of rumor and report was like an osmotic membrane, sucking in the frightened and unsettled, the hopeful and the greedy.

Her waist was narrow, one might say tiny, gently expanding upward to a slightish chest, proudly presenting to the discerning eye two small but firm and jutting, tip-tilted breasts.