Expedition means The act of expediting something; prompt execution. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like journey or journeying.

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Expedition in a sentence

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Expedition meaning

  1. The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
  2. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
  3. The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

Synonyms of Expedition

journey journeying sashay pleasure trip junket outing jaunt excursion working party working group military campaign campaign hostile expedition military expedition dispatch

Example sentences (20)

During his expedition, the colonizer visited the Philippines, where he was defeated by Filipino chieftain Lapulapu.

It follows the expedition led by Professor Paganel () and Lord Glenarvan () to find the shipwrecked Captain Grant.

Audiences were stunned following the reveal of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 during the June 2024 Xbox Games Showcase.

Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup's 2018 expedition.

Overall, the expedition spotted hundreds of other deep ocean critters, which are adapted to the cold depths and darkness.

Members of the Julius Stone expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers stopped to examine Julien’s inscription in 1909.

None of the women were experienced hunters and two of them had never been on a snowmobile expedition before.

After a search, high above the monastery we located a series of carved stones with the names of various expedition members.

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Over a century later, the expedition to the South Pole remains an enormous challenge physically, mentally and nutritionally.

Authorities are searching for a suspect vehicle described as a late 90’s model Ford pickup or Expedition.

Welcome to the world of expedition cruising, one of the fastest-growing segments of the cruise industry.

Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and his fellow Expedition 69 crew members will now have the opportunity to savour the taste of home.

But their expedition runs into trouble – and danger – when they discover that artefact-hunting terrorists have gotten there first!

They may possibly be headed to Tallahassee in a 2021 white Ford Expedition with Florida tag NJX6K.

Two city-dwellers head upstate for an outdoors expedition, primarily centered around fishing for the most coveted sea creatures around.

From the late 1960s, dedicated icebreaker expedition ships were venturing even further south.

A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.

The short starts with Giovanni funding an expedition to track down Mew, so he can clone it and make the most powerful Pokémon in the world.

A year after the pair set off on the expedition together they reconvened for a press conference in January 2014 to recount their experience.

The expedition cruise ship that has spent this week stuck aground in a remote Greenland fjord with 206 people on board has been pulled free.

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Common combinations with expedition

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "expedition" in a sentence?
An example: "During his expedition, the colonizer visited the Philippines, where he was defeated by Filipino chieftain Lapulapu." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "expedition" from real English texts.
What does "expedition" mean?
Expedition means: The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
What are synonyms of "expedition"?
Common synonyms of "expedition" include: journey, journeying, sashay, pleasure trip, junket, outing, jaunt, excursion. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "expedition" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "expedition", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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