expansible

Example Sentences

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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

In some of the lesser pools birds larger than the stork, bearing under the throat an expansible bag like that of the pelican, were seeking for prey.

From Across the Zodiac by Greg, Percy

For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir