Widen

Examples

• But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Shortly afterwards, his mouth began to widen again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And after five years Death again came to widen his path, by taking away his wife. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I set him down (as well as it was possible to judge) for a lawyer's clerk, and stopped at once to widen the distance between us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It widened as she turned to go, and no one advanced to fill it up. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The latter's eyes widened charmingly and she broke into a light laugh. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her lips trembled and her gaze widened with tears. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The lake widened and across it on the shore at the foot of the mountains on the other side we saw a few lights that should be Luino. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The green lane widened into a little circle of grass, where there was a small trickle of water at the bottom of a sloping bank. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Entering as a factor into an activity pursued for its own sake--whether as a means or as a widening of the content of the aim--it is informing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Within two years this man completed and made that art available in its essential, fundamental facts, which remain unchanged after thirty years of rapid improvement and widening application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She glanced up, and he saw by her widening eyes that there must be something strange in his own. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Along with that came the widening breach between himself and his mother. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Dredges were put to work immediately widening the channel at Cucaracha slide in Gaillard Cut, so that within a short time the canal was ready for use throughout its entire length. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This streak of bitterness came from a plenteous source, and kept widening in the current of his thought as he neared Lowick Gate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It widens always. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In some parts it widens into a morass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• While the river runs in a narrow, confined channel in the upper hilly country, only a small surface is exposed; a greater as the river widens. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Classes, genera, and species of animals appear and disappear, but the range widens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But as civilization advances, the gap between the capacities of the young and the concerns of adults widens. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But if one examines closely into one or two differences, the gap widens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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