extensive

Definition:
1. Large in spatial extent or range.
2. Having broad range or effect.
3. Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse).
4. Great in range or scope.

Use 'extensive' in a sentence:

• 1. The house has extensive grounds.
• 2. The most extensive approach is a full thesaurus.
• 3. It's a fair guess to say that the damage will be extensive.
• 4. Mr Marr makes extensive use of exclusively Scottish words.
• 5. He has received extensive corrective surgery to his skull.
• 6. The ship finished an extensive refit last year.
• 7. So pastoralism is a more extensive lifeway than farming is.
• 8. This TV program, which is about Chinese education, has attracted extensive attention of the society.
• 9. The local bus service is well run and extensive.
• 10. It has an extensive atmosphere.
• 11. Agriculture developed slowly among populations that had an extensive knowledge of plants and animals.
• 12. There will be extensive renovations to the hospital.
• 13. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
• 14. The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.
• 15. The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
• 16. The blast caused extensive damage to the house.
• 17. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.
• 18. She suffered extensive injuries in the accident.
• 19. She recently completed an extensive study of elected officials who began their political careers before the age of 35.
• 20. The facilities available are very extensive.
• 21. His extensive experience in other parts of Asia helped him to overcome cultural barriers.
• 22. There have been extensive consultations between the two countries.
• 23. He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.
• 24. There was a pretty extensive library of spectral line patterns of elements even by the 1860s.
• 25. The company announced an extensive stock buy-back program.
• 26. The subject boasts of an extensive literature.
• 27. Developments in South Africa receive extensive coverage in The Sunday Telegraph.
• 28. Nahuatl, like Greek and German, is a language that allows the formation of extensive compounds.
• 29. The unique design is based on extensive battlefield experience in full scale and low intensity conflicts.
• 30. The hull had suffered extensive damage to the starboard side.
• 31. They appear only in equatorial regions and generally do not form extensive interconnected networks.
• 32. They began to lay in extensive stores of food supplies.
• 33. They increased the need for extensive irrigation in the Teotihuacán Valley.
• 34. The profession offers a bundle of benefits, not least of which is extensive training.
• 35. How such extensive damage could have been sustained so quickly remains unexplained.
• 36. It was a large explosion and the resulting damage was extensive.
• 37. His knowledge of music is extensive.
• 38. Extensive repair work is being carried out.
• 39. The shop stocks an extensive range of beach wear.
• 40. The fire caused extensive damage.
• 41. When built, the palace and its grounds were more extensive than the city itself.
• 42. The resort is surrounded by extensive national and regional parklands.
• 43. The security forces have extensive powers of search and arrest.
• 44. The UN system will be in a position to support the extensive relief efforts needed.
• 45. He has carried out extensive research into renewable energy sources.
• 46. The report is underpinned by extensive research.
• 47. Extensive research has been done into this disease.
• 48. After extensive research, Albert Hoffman first succeeded in synthesizing the acid in 1938.