Widening

Examples

• 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.
• Thus we floated down the widening stream of the Po, sleeping when the cicale sang, awake with the stars. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• By it we are led to share vicariously in past human experience, thus widening and enriching the experience of the present. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• General McClernand had been, therefore, directed before I went to Young's Point to push the work of widening and deepening this canal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But her nervousness made the big stallion nervous, too, and he jerked his head, his nostrils widening at the firing and the noise of the bombs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was long since it had thus plunged and reared under his widening waistcoat, leaving him, the next minute, with an empty breast and hot temples. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• That perhaps is the most general statement we can make about the story of the geological record; it is a story of widening range. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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