How to Use expander in a Sentence

expander

noun

• A small needle is used to fill the expander with sterile saline.
  — Andrea Schwalm, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2011
• Sipser and Spielman worked out how to turn an expander graph into a code.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• What to Consider The zippers don’t have the best grip and the expander is a bit confusing to find at first.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• What to Consider: The expander is a bit smaller than on the carry-on bags.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• In that case, surgeons my place temporary expanders in the chest to hold the breast skin in place until the patient is ready.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2019
• After the expanders were put in I did notice that my left side sat a little bit higher and was firmer.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2018
• What to Consider The zippers don’t open and close super smoothly, and the expander doesn’t do much.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• There was plenty of space to pack everything on our list, even without the expanders.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• Stolen were a battery kit, electric saw, right angle drill and power expander.
  — cleveland, 26 Mar. 2020
• On a long-term note, Jupiter — Mr. Lucky, the great expander — remains in determined Scorpio through most of the year, a positive placement.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• Max out every inch of a cramped closet by investing in a closet expander.
  — Lisa Lombardi, wsj.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Christian Pulisic and Gio Reyna play much more withdrawn on the wings, which can be effective if it’s balanced out by a field-expander like Weah.
  — Seth Vertelney, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
• Erdős-Rényi graphs, though not always expanders, share many of their important features.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
• Like water balloons filled with saline solution, the expanders slowly stretched the skin to cover the gap when the twins were separated.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 22 Oct. 2017
• The first phase begins around age 8, lasts about 12 months, and often includes a combination of braces and a palate expander, a therapy used to widen the upper jaw.
  — Anna Nguyen, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• So here goes with a far from complete itemization of the year’s great conversation starters — and continuers and expanders — in the New York theater.
  — Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• What to Consider Over-packers, take note: there’s no expander option for last-minute souvenirs.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
• For example, once Tammy got an infection in one of her expanders.
  — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2017
• Graphs that are well connected despite being sparse — having only a small number of edges — are known as expander graphs.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
• There’s no need to stress about pairing down your travel wardrobe, as the set itself is impressively spacious thanks to 2-inch expanders in both suitcases.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
• Used as its maker intends, as a very quick expander, this is a fine tool for deer hunters—very accurate, loaded right up to snuff, and devastating on impact.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 18 Nov. 2019
• But its expander provides an extra two inches all around the bag, which equates to a 25 percent increase in total interior space.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• This four-way shoe widener and expander is shaped specifically for wide feet, allowing those with EE size feet to properly fit into a pair of shoes.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 21 May 2021
• This tissue expander will be continuously filled with saline solution, and over time the normal skin it was placed under will stretch out.
  — Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2023
• Karl Lenhardt developed an expander dowel locking system that tightened and loosened with a twist.
  — Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
• For them, LSD is less a kaleidoscopic mind expander than a humble mood enhancer, as subtle and quotidian as Prozac.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2017
• What to Consider There's no expander, so the capacity is quite limited.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
• As mentioned above, gaming peripheral software works great as a replacement for a text expander.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
• There’s already ample space to fit a week’s worth of clothing in the zippered compartment — the expander is primarily excellent for freeing up some extra space for souvenirs.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
• In 2020, Dean completed chemotherapy, but not before she was faced with one emergency after another, as her body rejected the expander placed in her left breast.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024