How to use "expedition" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "expedition" in popular movie and book plots

  • The main story concerns an expedition sent to a distant star in order to make contact with a civilization that may have been detected there.  - Fiasco (novel)
  • They next meet the Duc de Beaufort, on his way to Algiers for an expedition against the Barbary corsairs.  - The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
  • The two had met previously on a hunting expedition when Mr Spottsworth was killed.  - Ring for Jeeves
  • They remember the story of the expedition to find the Pole.  - Piglet's Big Movie
  • A dropship delivers the expedition to the surface of LV-426, where they find the colony deserted.  - Aliens (film)
  • The expedition continues on a single, newly built, large raft.  - Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  • One crew member, who is from Edmonds, Washington, which the expedition visits, jumps ship to spend his last days in his home town.  - On the Beach (novel)
  • " Tigger's friends form an expedition to find him and convince Rabbit to lead them.  - The Tigger Movie
  • However, he agrees to lead an expedition in return for a share of the treasure, or a stipend for his son if he is killed along the way.  - King Solomon's Mines
  • A five-person expedition uses the Space Shuttle Atlantis to rendezvous with the asteroid and plant the charges.  - The Dig
  • Pike is a woman-shy snake expert Ophidiologist, just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon.  - The Lady Eve
  • The colony gradually recovers and an expedition is organized to survey more of Ganymede.  - Farmer in the Sky
  • A manned expedition is mounted to visit the planet Mars, but all contact is lost after landing.  - Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Geoffrey offers to return Almásy to Cairo on his plane since the expedition will break camp with the coming of war.  - The English Patient
  • The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster.  - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Both have functioning bases on the Moon, and the Soviets have gained the lead in sending an expedition to Mars.  - The Wanderer (Leiber novel)

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