How to Use expedition in a Sentence

expedition

noun
  • What do news outlets want to know about the film and the expedition?
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Nine women and six men were on the expedition.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Now an expedition is launching to do just that.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Where will the expedition cruise go?
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The final days of the expedition brought the worst.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The expedition will mark a rare chance for fans to see Malik live.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Titan did three more dives on that year's expedition.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • On most seafloor drilling expeditions, progress is slow, with rocky cores hauled on deck every three hours or so.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Cockrell warned that this style of expedition is still likely to come with a great deal of risk.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
  • Before setting out on your expedition, there are some tricks of the trade to keep in mind.
    — Samantha Rees, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Before setting out on your expedition, there are some tricks of the trade to keep in mind.
    — Samantha Rees, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Adams could not believe how much the expedition had worn Lewis down.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And for a longer trip, like a thru-hike or expedition, most schedules and dates can’t be pre-planned at all.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their expedition will bring them face-to-face with some of the biggest sharks on the planet.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 16 June 2022
  • On a morning when the tourists and guides have filled two jeeps for an expedition, gunfire erupts.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
  • And this is not the group's first expedition, it's been down there several times.
    — Avery Keatley, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The other three victims were hired guides who led the expedition.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Widder has gone on plenty of expeditions that didn’t pan out.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This ship is an expedition cruise, with state-of-the-art biosafety measures.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • The other three victims were hired guides who led the expedition.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Getting to this rental is an expedition.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The men thus far chosen for the expedition are between thirty and forty-one years of age.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Ready to plan your next outdoor expedition?
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026
  • These races and expeditions don't get any easier with time.
    — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.
    — Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • One of the four guides on the expedition survived, as did two women who were among the friend group that booked the trip.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • None had lived aboard for months on end as an expedition crew member afterward.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The scientists aboard this expedition are rarely more than a mass of anonymous faces.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In the bush, a problem can become an expedition.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Well, how does the 78 expedition measure up against those?
    — Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2025

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