The river, after leaving Wallingford, widens a little, and there is a continuation of the park-like meadows.
The riverwidens sharply out to the eastward of Thames Haven.
The crevice widens beyond the distance mentioned, though irregularly, being in some places 25 feet from side to side.
It is a short distance above the mouth of the river, where the little valley widens in a half-moon shape, the stream flowing close to the bluff on the right.
It gradually widens out into a Firth about 15 miles across, as you go south from the town, and in the south-south-west presents a large horizon of water.
Wherever the canyon widens to little fields, the Mexican farmer's adobe hut stands by the roadside with an intake ditch to irrigate the farm.
It is only about Maruchak that the valley widens out sufficiently to admit of a large town.
Our happiness mainly depends on the freedom that reigns within us; a freedom that widens with every good deed, and contracts beneath acts of evil.
Some may suppose that as intellect widens many a motive for heroism will be lost to the soul; but it should be borne in mind that the wider intellect brings with it an ideal of heroism loftier and more disinterested still.
The gulf between them widens until they stand at opposite poles of thought.
His range of knowledge narrows in one direction, widens in another.
As the gap widens the current experiences more and more difficulty in passing over this non-conducting gap, and great electrical energy has to be employed to keep it going.
As it is, it widens slightly as it proceeds, but, practically speaking, we might call it a solid beam of light.
Especially north of the Columbia river, the range widens out into a plateau.
The entrance to Port Jackson is only two miles in width, but it widens until it forms a large harbour containing water enough for the largest ships, and space enough to accommodate all comers in perfect safety.
Now the channel widens out and the coasts of the two continents diverge from each other.
The sound gradually widens out, and as long as twilight lasts the land and islands are in sight.
Near the surface of the latter the follicle widens out again, and it is from this part that the hair emerges.
The tube itself is also twisted like a corkscrew, and widens at its mouth.
The Paraguay River widens out and is filled with many islets, some of them large.
About twenty miles below Coari it widens out into a broad valley of great fertility; most of its water is used at that point to supply the large vineyards in that neighborhood.
The width of the hollow does not exceed six inches at the widest part; but the cavity is then filled with wet sand, which in the course of some weeks widens the excavation by its weight, and gives the boat perfect form.
It was a needed help, for man is much the creature of his environments, and what widens his horizon as to the inseparable relations of man to man and the mutuality of obligation, strengthens his manhood in the ratio he embraces opportunity.
A possible peril, real, imaginary or remote; a common brotherhood tightens the chain of fellowship and gradually widens the exchange of amenities.
It finally widens into the Hamoaze and, by way of Plymouth Sound, finds its way into the sea.
Port Eliot, though charmingly situated where the Tidy widens into a lake, is otherwise only interesting on account of its pictures, of which there are several by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The stage widens under their steps that they may have room to move.
Egypt, which was little more than a glen higher up, here widens out to a more imposing size.
We mean the gentle sandy slopes which lie between the foot of the cliffs and the cultivated fields, a narrow band which widens a little between the long spurs which the mountains throw out towards the river.
When the head widens rapidly as you pass from the outer angles of the eyes to the top of the ears, Acquisitiveness is large; but when the head is thin in this region, Acquisitiveness is small.
When the head widens rapidly from the junction of the ears as you rise upward, Secretiveness is larger than Destructiveness; but when the head becomes narrower as you rise, it is smaller than Destructiveness.
With a poet's licence, Wordsworth likens his river finally to the Thames; but though the Duddon widens considerably at Ulpha, it loses its beauty before it finishes its career.
The stream widens as it descends, and below passes over a slanting rock, which gives it a somewhat different direction.
The stream, by this time of considerable breadth, widens out yet more during the five or six remaining miles of its course; but its channel is tortuous and shifting, and only by small vessels is it navigable.
The beauty and richness of the Vale of Evesham are proverbial; it is a land of corn and orchards, and it widens out as the Avon winds on in rounding the northern extremity of the Cotswolds.
Now we near the last reach of the Avon, Broad Pill, where the river widens greatly.
In the farther end is a beautiful grove of cottonwoods, and between us and the cotton-woods the little stream widens out into three clear lakelets with bottoms of smooth rock.
Tower cliffs are passed; then the river widensout for several miles, and meadows are seen on either side between the river and the walls.
Here the gorge widensinto a spacious, sky-roofed chamber.
The sunlight fades into twilight, and the full moon rises, right, rear, where the Lesser Harbor widens to the sea.
The island extends down to the Lesser Harbor, centre rear, which widens to a sea-glimpse at right.
The tendon widens and becomes flexible as it passes across the anterior surface of the intratarsal joint, then narrows and attaches to the tubercle on the anterior surface of the proximal part of the tarsometatarsus between Mm.
At the latter place the bed of the canal suddenly widens considerably, being about twice its average width.
This lode widens out; the deeper you go, the more there is of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
