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UK
/ɛkspˈænsɪvli/
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ADVERB
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in an ebullient manner
Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression -
in an impressively expansive manner
she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income
How To Use expansively In A Sentence
- Of the two latest biographers, it is Nicholas Roe, a professor of English at St Andrews University, who writes most expansively about the poet's ancestry and precocious development as a poet.
- Now more than ever, we need to inspire young women to think expansively and courageously about the impact they can have on the world.
- Elfant gestures expansively, the sweep of his arm passing over the thousand of tiny circles at his booth.
- He gestured expansively towards the lake, looking blandly innocent of anything supernatural. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income
- Jyotiraditya Scindia held forth expansively to Barkha Dutt over a multi-course breakfast with a bearer hovering.
- On the east side of the Inner Court is a ruinous two-storey building of the later 15th century, expansively fenestrated.
- And though it is still clogged with scaffolding, shipwrights, and a half-dozen cherry pickers, the promenade is already expansively dramatic.
- But money and land have always talked loudly in racing, and in the expansively named Grand Prairie, in the centre of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex where Lone Star Park was built, there is plenty of both.
- He was twaddling on expansively about this and that; Emily didn't know, really; she wasn't listening.