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How to use enlarge in a sentence

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Enlarge means to make (something) larger. Example: “We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.”

Examples of enlarge by meaning

verbTo make (something) larger.

  • We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.

verbTo increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy...

  • Knowledge enlarges the mind.

verbTo speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate.

  • He began to enlarge on the nature of the ground.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167

verbTo release; to set at large.

  • In hospital he gave his parole, and was enlarged after paying for the torn blanket.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167
  • Watt replied that that would indeed be something to look forward to, and a comfort to him during the night, the prospect of being enlarged, in the morning, by Mr.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

More sentences with enlarge

  • In pseudohypertrophic paralysis, the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.From the entry pseudohypertrophic
  • Nutlet rugulose to transversely ridged; tubercle without grayish enlarged base.From the entry rugulose
  • Lower jaw with several rows at anterior, outer row enlarged, posterior teeth larger but not caninoid.n.d. "Tigrigobius saucrus" Goby Net (accessed 2 Nov 2019). From the entry caninoid
  • The espringal (Fig. 4.4(a)), or the wall-crossbow, was merely an enlarged version of the hand crossbow.2016, Henry Pratap Phillips, The History and Chronology of Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons (c.1000 to 1850), Notion Press, →ISBN. From the entry espringal
  • Antennal bases enlarged, forming straight bidentate horns, tapered and pointed ventroapically.2015 July 2, Dorchin N, Astrin JJ, Bodner L, Harris KM, “Morphological and Molecular Revision of the Genus Ozirhincus (Diptera…. From the entry ventroapically
  • The most accomplished opisthobranch swimming is by enlarged parapodial lobes of the foot.2013, Karl M. Wilbur, C. M. Yonge, Physiology of Mollusca - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 402. From the entry parapodial
  • The right ovary was enlarged to approximately 10 centimetres with a bilocular chocolate cyst, suggesting endometrioma.2012, Julia Grove, Medical Domino Effect: The Right To Bear Child, →ISBN. From the entry chocolate cyst
  • An enlarged midpoint, a bullet is a mark used to set off items in a list.2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The typographic desk reference, Oak Knoll Press, page 35. From the entry midpoint
  • Then, instead of killing Mom-and-Pop stores, they’d present the Mom and Pops with enlarged opportunities for profit.2008 June 14, “Our Opinion: Dreaming of Wal-Mart”, in The Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Heights–Downtown edition, volume 31, number 24…. From the entry mom-and-pop
  • The difficulties of CLSC management are enlarged by lots of partners and their flexibility.2007, Li D. Xu, A. Min Tjoa, Sohail S. Chaudhry, Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II, →ISBN. From the entry CLSC
  • Thus the delineator was used both to enlarge and reduce characters.1994, Printing History - Volumes 16-17, page 37. From the entry delineator
  • For the modeling of many phenomena there is a need for enlarging the family of Poisson distributions.1993, Rolf-Dieter Reiss, A Course on Point Processes, Springer, page 62. From the entry Poisson distribution
  • Enlarge the hole with a needle file to avoid “hamfisting” and kinking the tail-rotor rod.1991 June, Datu Ramel, “Kyosho EP Concept”, in Tom Atwood, editor, Model Airplane News, Wilton, Conn.: Air Age, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88…. From the entry hamfist
  • When the army reached Tsun-i, an enlarged Politburo meeting was called.1985, Ching Hua Lee, “Becoming Mao's Man (1931-1935)”, in Deng Xiaoping: The Marxist Road to the Forbidden City, Princeton, N.J.: The…. From the entry observer
  • The enlarged rear interambulacrum on the oral side of holasteroids and spatangoids is known as the plastron.1983, Ulrich Lehmann, Fossil Invertebrates, page 292. From the entry spatangoid
  • The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation.1981, Final Budget of Stanislaus County and Financial Report. From the entry downwell
  • Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes. . . .1978, "Another free lunch" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times (USA), 20 March, p. 10A (retrieved 26 Nov 2010). From the entry duck out
  • The digital nerves that supply the enlarged macrodactylic digits are usually enlarged.1974, J. William Littler, Lester M. Cramer, James Walter Smith, Symposium on Reconstructive Hand Surgery. From the entry macrodactylic
  • Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27. From the entry atrous
  • Except what I caught misreflected in the hair dryer – her enlarged ear.1968, John Irving, Setting Free the Bears. From the entry misreflect
  • Parsi was a heterogeneous language, each author enlarging it with something typical of his native dialect.1967, Michaël I. Zand, Six Centuries of Glory: Essays on Medieval Literature of Iran and Transoxania, page 30. From the entry Parsi
  • With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory.1962, Raymond Kerrison, Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107. From the entry Maoming
  • These may enlarge with the extension of the membranæ, but there is never any shifting.1920, Contributions to Embryology, Washington: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 136. From the entry membrana
  • The couteres, smaller on the right elbow, are enlarged by extra raised projections on the left.1901, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Proceedings, page 129. From the entry coutere
  • As the prostate enlarges with age, it squeezes the urethra that passes through it and can disrupt normal urinary function.2019 August 26, Jane E. Brody, “Alternatives to Surgery for an Enlarged Prostate”, in The New York Times. From the entry benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Head holoptic, facets in dorsal half of eye enlarged.2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera…. From the entry holoptic
  • A group of enlarged nonmatted rapidly growing lymph nodes may be associated with features of superior mediastinal syndrome suggesting lymphoma.2009, Sibarjun Ghosh, Bedside clinics in paediatrics. From the entry nonmatted
  • The other event of this day in Jesus' life fortified and enlarged this teaching of His from the figless tree.2009, Robert E. Speer, Christ and Life. From the entry figless
  • Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.2006, Neil A. Campbell, Biology: concepts & connections, page 404. From the entry upright
  • Click the zoom box to enlarge the document window to full-screen size; click it again to restore the window's previous size.2002, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, QuarkXPress 5 for Windows and Macintosh, page 7. From the entry zoom box
  • (We 'nostrify' a certain opinion, accept it etc.) This means that the identity of the subject becomes enlarged.2000, “Indian journal of Secularism”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 5, page 12. From the entry nostrify
  • Nonopacified bowel loops are potential sources of diagnostic error because they can simulate an abscess, mass, or enlarged lymph nodes.1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s…. From the entry nonopacified
  • They enlarge the retina of the political eye.1993, David Ernest Apter, Democracy, Violence and Emancipatory Movements. From the entry unhistory
  • The convex preprotocrista enlarges the trigon basin in the downstrike direction of the hypoconid, thus increasing Phase II contact (Fig. 53G).1989, Zhexi Luo, Structure of the Petrosals of Multituberculata (mammalia) and Morphology of the Molars of Early Arctocyonids…. From the entry downstrike
  • Mundialization is a psychological mechanism toward peace by which the "in-group" is enlarged until it encompasses all humans.1988, Peace Research Reviews, volume 11, Oakville, Ont.: Canadian Peace Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry mundialization

Meaning of enlarge

  1. verb To make (something) larger.
  2. verb To grow larger.
  3. verb To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

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Questions about enlarge in a sentence

How do you use enlarge in a sentence?
Enlarge is used as a verb. For example: “We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.”
What is a short sentence with enlarge?
“Knowledge enlarges the mind.”
What does enlarge mean?
Enlarge means to make (something) larger.

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