EXTENSION in a Sentence

Learn EXTENSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
86 example sentences for EXTENSION, such as:
1. They're building an extension to their house.
2. The pupils disliked the extension of the term.
3. This chore duty is an extension of the laundry duty.
4. The extension of the garden will take several weeks.
5. Donald's been given an extension to finish his thesis.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXTENSION
extension
 n.  amount or degree or range to which something extends
 n.  an addition to the length of something
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word slang is an extension which every one will not admit.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
2  Suicides like that which is on the brink of accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is murder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
3  I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
4  This extension of power can almost be believed in at such moments.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
5  For the further the Romans carried their arms, the more necessary it seemed to them to grant similar extensions of command, and the oftener they, in fact, did so.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIV.
6  Dresses were made, jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were made, settlements were made, and an extensive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour to the contract.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
7  The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  On the sides of the apartment hung implements of war and of the chase, and there were at each corner folding doors, which gave access to other parts of the extensive building.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The squires, with cap in hand, and low reverences, expressed their deep sense of a courtesy and generosity not often practised, at least upon a scale so extensive.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I have little heart for extensive improvements till I know that it will ever have a mistress.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  A mart extensive enough for the purpose existed at Anglebury, some miles beyond the spot chosen for his residence, and there he resolved to pass the coming night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
13  His eyesight, by long humouring in his native air, had grown stronger, but not sufficiently strong to warrant his attempting his extensive educational project.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
14  Putting things together, I reached a strong suggestion of an extensive system of subterranean ventilation, whose true import it was difficult to imagine.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
15  Hugh was to go with her, despite the wails and rather extensive comments of Aunt Bessie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  The extension bridge is steep,so the tricyclist has to get off his tricycle and push it up.
2  They were refused planning permission for a modern extension because it was a Grade II listed building.
3  They're building an extension to their house.
4  Donald's been given an extension to finish his thesis.
5  The extension of the garden will take several weeks.
6  The team appraisal is a logical extension of the individual appraisal interview.
7  The previous owner of the house had built an extension on the back.
8  Many Filipinos see the bases as an extension of American colonial rule.
9  He first entered Britain on a six-month visa, and was given a further extension of six months.
10  The plan is for a rolling extension of the tax over the next ten years.
11  The pupils disliked the extension of the term.
12  Micro credit is the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.
13  This chore duty is an extension of the laundry duty.
14  We believe that extensions of law enforcement will lead inevitably to tyranny, so power of police should be shrink as possible.
15  The bank plans various extensions to its credit facilities.