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Example sentences for "widenings"

Lexicographically close words:
widely; widen; widened; wideness; widening; widens; wider; widespread; widespreading; widest
  1. The motor-omnibus requires no special track, no overhead wires, no power station and sub-stations, and no costly widenings of streets and roads or rebuilding of bridges.

  2. Widenings should be planned with a regard to later reconstruction of the original bridge, if that is at all likely to be necessary, and with the object that, when complete, the whole should be a consistent piece of work.

  3. Dealing with widenings simply, there is often some little trouble in contriving a connection between the new and the old work, as this may have to be made under, or close to, the sleeper ends of the existing roads.

  4. Also, if the hand is long and slender, an additional row may be knitted between the widenings for the thumb.

  5. Continue in this way, adding 2 stitches between the widenings every 3d row, and keeping as closely as possible to the pattern, until you have 21 stitches across the thumb.

  6. Even if there were not the question of the prodigious cost that widenings of the Birmingham Canal would involve, there would remain the equally fatal drawback of the elevation of Birmingham and Wolverhampton above sea level.

  7. Here increased capacity can, for the most part, be secured only by local improvements and widenings of existing thoroughfares.

  8. The need for extensive street widenings through these districts will be practically eliminated by a thoroughfare of easy gradient along the Ardmore route.

  9. It remained, then, to consider adequate widenings of Fifth Avenue or Forbes Street.

  10. Further improvements on these thoroughfares have not been studied in detail, but numerous widenings and re-alignments are needed, especially in the Pine Creek thoroughfare.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widenings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.