How to Use expedition in a Sentence
expedition
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On this expedition, Dr. Means and the rest of the team found three species of frogs that are new to science.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
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That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.
—Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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Still, the prize of reaching 90-degrees north is the goal for the expedition.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2023
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The next morning, on the last day of the expedition, the researchers again saw the fisherman.
—Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
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All of the Americans from the expedition to Aconcagua are gone.
—John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
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The leader and two other adults at the expedition killed the bobcat.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 July 2023
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Their expedition will bring them face-to-face with some of the biggest sharks on the planet.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 16 June 2022
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And for a longer trip, like a thru-hike or expedition, most schedules and dates can’t be pre-planned at all.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
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Before setting out on your expedition, there are some tricks of the trade to keep in mind.
—Samantha Rees, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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Before setting out on your expedition, there are some tricks of the trade to keep in mind.
—Samantha Rees, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2022
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On a morning when the tourists and guides have filled two jeeps for an expedition, gunfire erupts.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
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Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again—and a coup begins in earnest.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
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The men thus far chosen for the expedition are between thirty and forty-one years of age.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
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And this is not the group's first expedition, it's been down there several times.
—Avery Keatley, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
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Spots are now open for the 2023 expedition, which will set off from Newfoundland in May next year.
—CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
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On most seafloor drilling expeditions, progress is slow, with rocky cores hauled on deck every three hours or so.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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In 2021, Harila set her sights on Mount Everest, but the expedition got off on the wrong foot.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
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The Ramseys say the globe-trotting expedition is the first of its kind done in an electric vehicle, or a car of any kind.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
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The fact that the couple could—and in fact would—perish on any of their research expedition frames the narrative.
—Katherine Cusumano, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
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The Landing will even kit you out for a multi-day expedition lasting up to five nights. 7.
—Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
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For 89 days, Tony Romeo and his team had nothing to show for their three-month expedition to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
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But there are signs of strain among both the Sherpa guides and expedition support workers.
—Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
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The little crab is thought to have been carried to the surface on a plastic bag pulled up from the seafloor during the August 2024 expedition.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Seabourn, Viking and Scenic are three cruise lines that recently added submarines to some of their expedition ships.
—Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
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This is not the first case of assault involving a South African expedition team.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
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The scientists aboard this expedition are rarely more than a mass of anonymous faces.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
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The expeditions through the Northwest Passage evoke the triumphs and tragedies of the intrepid men who explored this historic route.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2024
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When Kleitman received a request to shoot a newsreel on the last day of the expedition, the scientist again said yes.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
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Take the instant camera on your expedition, then slot the photos into the book for a keepsake.
—Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 25 July 2022
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Spying the ocean floor through 9-1/2 inches of glass, his expedition produced some of the most detailed footage ever recorded of Earth’s deepest oceanic trench.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
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