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How to use extend in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Extend means to increase in extent. Example: “The desert extended for miles in all directions.”

Examples of extend by meaning

verbTo possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.

  • The desert extended for miles in all directions.
  • Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165
  • The sands of Moltsog extend for some 80 kilometres, and surround a few lakes, such as Ganga Nuur.2002, Claire Sermier, “Eastern Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN...

verbTo bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

  • to extend sympathy to the suffering
  • to extend credit to a valued customer

verbTo increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

  • There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.

verbOf a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.

  • The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.

verbTo reenlist for a further period.

  • Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi

More sentences with extend

  • Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second.From the entry lead
  • A flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.From the entry antagonist
  • In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.From the entry credit
  • There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.From the entry zone
  • The Eastern Seaboard megalopolis extends from New Hampshire to Alexandria, VA.From the entry megalopolis
  • One common ceratopsian feature is a frill extending from the back of the skull.From the entry ceratopsian
  • She became very good at mixing and matching skirts, blouses, and accessories to extend her fashion budget.From the entry mix and match
  • An overbust corset encloses the torso, extending from just under the arms to the hips.From the entry overbust
  • Dye steadily injected into the fluid at a fixed point extends along a streakline.From the entry streakline
  • Please extend them the courtesy of your presence.From the entry courtesy
  • This Act extends to England and Wales only.From the entry England and Wales
  • Poincaré proved that Betti numbers are invariants and used them to extend Euler's polyhedral formula to higher dimensional spaces.From the entry Betti number
  • He was more than willing to extend the terms of the loan, but his boss decided to play hardball and demanded a balloon payment.From the entry play hardball
  • The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.From the entry lake
  • Newtonian physics was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.From the entry physics
  • It extends beyond socioeconomic class to encompass the full spectrum of biological dysfunction.2026 January 21, Chad Crowley, “What is Bioleninism?”, in American Buddhist Net, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2026. From the entry postmodern
  • Confusion regarding the encoding of script elements extends to the keyboard layouts provided by operating systems.2026, Gerry Leonidas, “A framework for research-informed typeface design: Starting with Greek”, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global…. From the entry ano teleia
  • Researchers monitor the volcano through instruments and cables that extend from the coast.2025 August 20, Julia Jacobo, “Mile-deep underwater volcano off West Coast could erupt soon, scientists say”, in ABC News. From the entry seismometer
  • There had been plans to extend electrification from Harrow to Rickmansworth.2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 57. From the entry backburner
  • The issues are far-reaching and pervasive, extending well beyond specific verifiers.2023 September 19, Nina Lakhani, quoting Anuradha Mittal, “Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions”, in…. From the entry VCM
  • One must be extremely wary of extending such inferences to physical reality itself.2022 April 16, Stephen Boughn, “There Is No Spooky Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics”, in Entropy, volume 24, number 4, →DOI, page…. From the entry spooky action at a distance
  • Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020. From the entry resign
  • The DfT's help didn't extend beyond the train operating companies (TOCs) for which it is responsible.2020 April 8, Philip Haigh, “Out of the Current Crisis We could See Meaningful Changes”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry rejig
  • On a map, it appears as a crooked blue finger extending from the Mekong near Phnom Penh.2018 March 28, Ben Mauk, “A People in Limbo, Many Living Entirely on the Water”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Mekong
  • Suggesions for extending the named lead to millinillion, which is 10³⁰⁰³.2017, Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction, page 20. From the entry millinillion
  • He has a weakness for these glutinous confections that are supposed to extend his life.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 10. From the entry smoothie
  • However, there are some who do not extend the freedom to express genophilia to white Australians.2016 January 25, “Open Drum: Blood on the Southern Cross”, in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News. From the entry genophilia
  • This approach includes and extends previous results on so-called least square values and semivalues in the literature.2016, Ulrich Faigle, Michel Grabisch, “Least Square Approximations and Linear Values of Cooperative Games”, in arXiv. From the entry semivalues
  • The service level extends to other ISPs' services used by Cleardazeᵀᴹ.2016, Andrew Hiles, E-Business Service Level Agreements, page 81. From the entry service level
  • Lower extensions on each end also display hip bellcast rooflines while separate eaves extend over the platform.2016, Ron Brown, Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle: Rails Over the Mountains. From the entry bellcast
  • The Erewhonian conflation of mechanical energy and capitalist value extends to their attitude toward machinery.2015, Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, page 91. From the entry Erewhonian
  • Thus we extend the theory of the directed subdifferential from quasidifferentiable to directed subdifferentiable functions.2015, Robert Baier, Elza Farkhi, Vera Roshchina, “From Quasidifferentiable to Directed Subdifferentiable Functions: Exact Calculus Rules”…. From the entry quasi-differentiable

Meaning of extend

  1. verb To increase in extent.
  2. verb To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
  3. verb To cause to increase in extent.

Full definition of extend

Questions about extend in a sentence

How do you use extend in a sentence?
Extend is used as a verb. For example: “The desert extended for miles in all directions.”
What is a short sentence with extend?
“to extend sympathy to the suffering”
What does extend mean?
Extend means to increase in extent.

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