expedition
noun
Examples of expedition in a Sentence
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
As an eclipse came around, Jay could be found wearing his lucky orange pants and heading expeditions of colleagues, students (many of whom became professional astronomers and eclipse chasers themselves), tourists and friends to corners of every continent.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
From December 2014 to June 2015, Virts was aboard the space station as commander for NASA expedition 43.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
The three girls, along with nine others, assisted in the catch and release of six sharks during a day-long Biscayne Bay expedition with students and scientists from the University of Miami’s Shark Research and Conservation Program and the Females In Natural Sciences (FINS) initiative.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
Fourteen-day expeditions in the Seychelles on Le Jacques-Cartier from $17,495 per person, all-inclusive.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an office cleanout.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
Smith noted Wednesday that time may be running out for expeditions inside the Titanic.
—CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
All of the astronauts were assigned to International Space Station expeditions for up to 26 weeks from November 2011 to June 2018.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
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15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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