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

I telephoned for a physician, and while awaiting his coming my patient placed in my keeping an expansible leather-covered book of a large pocket size.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

First dealing with temperature as measured by the expansion of a liquid in a less expansible vessel, he showed how it is in reality numerically reckoned.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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