Expeditions

Thor Heyerdahl gained world fame with his bold ideas and spectacular expeditions.

They die of fear of such expeditions.

She often went off for long expeditions with him.

A few expeditions visited the island in the late 19th century.

In the age of the Portuguese maritime expeditions, sailors were afflicted with the most diverse illnesses: malignant fevers, diarrhea, and the dreaded and frequent scurvy, resulting from a lack of vitamin C caused by malnutrition.

Crewed expeditions in deep space may be a long time from now, if ever. Zero-gravity conditions and space radiation are deterrents, not to mention the psychological trauma of isolation in outer space and the exorbitant cost financially. The pioneers would have to be fit soldiers.

As the expeditions against the Pannonians and the Germans were, as it were, a repetition of the Raetian campaign on a more extended scale, so the leaders, who were put at their head with the title of imperial legates, were the same—once more the two princes of the imperial house, Tiberius, who, in the place of Agrippa, took up the command in Illyricum, and Drusus, who went to the Rhine, both now no longer inexperienced youths, but men in the prime of their years, and well fitted to take in hand severe work.

The Yautja often engage in hunting expeditions across different planets and species, seeking challenging prey.

The professor tried to stimulate interest in archeology by taking her students on expeditions.

Johannes had to make a solemn vow to Tom, who lay there dying, that he would care for his daughter and present the manuscript on the three Africa expeditions to the Royal Prussian Academy in Berlin.