But his heavy shells were scattered over a wide area, and came bowling through the darkness and exploding with great upheavals of the wet earth.
In Bapaume and Peronne, in Roye and Nesle and Liancourt, and all these places over a wide area, German soldiers not only blew out the fronts of houses, but with picks and axes smashed mirrors and furniture and picture-frames.
In looking at species as they are now distributed over a wide area, we generally find them tolerably numerous over a large territory, then becoming somewhat abruptly rarer and rarer on the confines, and finally disappearing.
There is, however, this difference: a single cypress or pine is often enough to shed beauty over a wide area; the palm is a social tree, and its beauty is not so much that of the individual as of the group.
The righting on the previous night had covered a wide area, but a good many of the wounded had been brought back.
The battle was spread over a wide area of villages and broken towns and shattered farmhouses, and neat little homesteads yet untouched by fire or shell.
Occasionally independents are shrewd enough to take advantage of this; and so to distribute their business that they shall in no single place menace a powerful rival, and yet comfortably subsist on the gleanings over a wide area.
Oftentimes the most modest rules and regulations may lead to results affecting commerce over a wide area.
The Texas "common point" system affords a valuable illustration of the influence of competitive forces in trade in bringing about an equalization of transportation charges over a wide area.
Between the scalp proper and the pericranium is a quantity of loose areolar tissue, in the meshes of which extravasated blood or inflammatory products can rapidly spread over a wide area.
The bone gives way over a wide area, the affected portion may be comminuted, and one or more of the fragments may remain depressed below the level of the rest of the skull.
It may affect comparatively young persons, may spread over a wide area, or pass deeply and involve the bone.
The underlying marine tertiary strata extend over a wide area: I was assured that they can be traced in ravines in an east and west line across Entre Rios to the Uruguay, a distance of about 135 miles.
I may here remark that a sheet of ice of moderate thickness, if it extend over a wide area, may suffice to buoy up the largest erratics which fall upon it.
The disease runs a chronic course, and may slowly extend over a wide area in spite of the usual methods of treatment.
The pus may form and collect within a circumscribed area, constituting a localised abscess; or it may infiltrate the tissues over a wide area--diffuse suppuration.
Thus we should notice that clays and shales would exhibit a regularity and uniformity of deposition over a wide area.
In connection with the coal-fields of the United States, it is interesting to notice that a wide area in Texas, estimated at 3000 square miles, produces a large amount of coal annually from strata of the Liassic age.
These may be found scattered over a wide area in suitable spots only, but can hardly on that account be said to have several distinct areas of distribution.
This group of lowly-organised and very ancient creatures {417} still exists scattered over a wide area; but they are nowhere so abundant as in the island of Madagascar.
Erratics from the north of Ireland would thus travel down the bed of the North Channel, and eventually be distributed over a wide area up to and possibly even some distance beyond the Isle of Man.
To this genial interglacial epoch succeeded the last glacial epoch, when a great ice-sheet once more enveloped a wide area.
If the strata are equally unyielding throughout a wide area, then general undulation may ensue; but should they yield unequally, then folding and contortion will take place along one or more lines of weakness.
These rocks cover a wide area in the midland counties extending to the south coast near Exmouth, and reappear in the north in the Vale of Eden and a few places in southern Scotland.
His delineation of Abyssinia, though unduly spread over a wide area, is indeed wonderfully correct.
As an extreme instance of the misleading character of the scale given on maps embracing a wide area we may refer to a map of a hemisphere.
It will suffice therefore to point out that the ordinary needs of the cartographer can be met by conical projections, and, in the case of maps covering a wide area, by Lambert's equal area projection.
There is however, this difference: a single cypress or pine is often enough to shed beauty over a wide area; the palm is a social tree, and its beauty is not so much that of the individual as of the group.
I think most of that problem has come out of the fact that our information is all based on little, piecemeal bits of work done here and there, and it does not refer to variety testing over a wide area.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wide area" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
