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Example sentences for "wider"

Lexicographically close words:
widened; wideness; widening; widenings; widens; widespread; widespreading; widest; widgeon; widin
  1. Then for the wider laws of art, we may proceed to examine whole works, single elegies, essays, and dramas.

  2. However, his complete breakdown, with the sale of his practice, had at once knocked that idea on the head, and had given its motive a much wider application.

  3. For you will bring back all you have gained from a far wider sphere of usefulness, and from a fresher experience than you could ever hope to secure by staying at home.

  4. Gradually, gradually the lid was swinging back, and the black slit which marked the opening was becoming wider and wider.

  5. It struck me suddenly that I would do well to take a wider sweep and open up a new airtract.

  6. The book I now bring forward may, however, be more properly regarded as a presentation of the wider scheme of social reform out of which the more special sex studies have developed.

  7. The difficulties of theory are clearing up as our wider view obtains a firmer grasp of our material, but the difficulties of practice are still before us.

  8. It is thus that civilization, at a certain point in its course, renders inevitable the appearance of that wider and deeper organization of life which in the present volume we are concerned with under the name of Social Hygiene.

  9. A woman may be acquainted with Greek and the higher mathematics, and be as uneducated in the wider relationships of life as a man in the like case.

  10. As we now leave the question, some may ask themselves whether this concomitant decline in birth-rates and death-rates may not possibly have a still wider and more fundamental meaning as a measure of civilization.

  11. I have some skill myself in balms and simples, But, in these deadlier matters I would fain Trust to your wider knowledge.

  12. We gave ourselves broad lands; and when our king Desired a wider hunting ground we set Hundreds of Saxon homes a-blaze and tossed Women and children back into the fire If they but wrung their hands against our will.

  13. It was a function that might lead, and probably does lead, into a wider world.

  14. I don't know why this later redaction of your critique of the mathematics of movement has seemed to me so much more telling than the early statement--I suppose it is because of the wider use made of the principle in the book.

  15. The other kinds of consciousness bear witness to a much wider universe of experiences, from which our belief selects and emphasizes such parts as best satisfy our needs.

  16. It seems to me probable that the door is open to a wider and calmer political liberty than France has yet enjoyed.

  17. The sunshine seemed literally to push back the houses to make room for the crowd, and the wide boulevards looked wider than ever.

  18. It makes it very fine and simple if you can enter your wider life here, free.

  19. She will find the difference between our ages wider than now.

  20. She seemed to be in the world at last, plunged in it, enveloped by it, and she came to delight in the roar and tumult of it all, as if it were the sound of winds and waters; and each day she entered upon a little wider circle of adventure.

  21. He may have been self-seeking and vain-glorious, but in his political life self-seeking and vain-glory were elevated by their alliance with higher and wider aims.

  22. Although at first Mr. Darwin appeared to restrict his system to species, very soon, as was but natural, it was extended to the production of new genera, and even of divisions of the organic kingdoms yet wider asunder.

  23. And the wider and the harder they became, the narrower and the softer grew scores of lesser trails which heretofore had been somewhat traversed.

  24. The first phase of road-making (if it be dignified by such a title) was the broadening of the Indian path by the mere passing of wider loads over it.

  25. These roads were wider than any single track of any of the routes they followed, though thirty feet was the average maximum breadth.

  26. And, so long as the roadbeds remained in a "state of nature," the heavier the wagon traffic, the wider the roads became.

  27. Novels that are to run through a year, or maybe many years, and are to set forth the passions and trials of changing age and varying circumstance, require different treatment and wider millinery knowledge.

  28. But the word locoed has come to have a wider application than to the poor shepherds or the horses and cattle that have eaten the loco.

  29. In this the highest of created things are under a law having a much wider application.

  30. The girl who puts on the cap and gown devotes herself to the society which is avowedly in pursuit of a larger intellectual sympathy and a wider intellectual life.

  31. The sphenethmoid and frontoparietal form the anterior margin of the frontoparietal fontanelle; the fontanelle is narrow anteriorly and wider posteriorly (Fig.

  32. The skull of Hyla elaeochroa is slightly wider than it is long, and flat.

  33. Dorsally, the sphenethmoid is wider than long, roughly pentagonal in shape; the frontoparietal is elongate, smooth, and bears a small anterior supraorbital process.

  34. Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor.

  35. Even if it remain but for the moment, yet that moment is hers by right of her sex, which is denied the wider rights of those they love and serve.

  36. While the mention of David's personal danger left her sick for a moment, she saw the wider peril also to the work he had set out to do.

  37. Then, again, the fierce music sounded, and the first boat appeared under one of the wider spans of the bridge, a couple of hundred yards away.

  38. As the summer drew on the wider world too had its storms.

  39. It was an immensely wide face, fringed with reddish hair, scanty about the lips and more full below; and it looked the wider from the narrow drooping eyes set near together and the small pursed mouth.

  40. As the spring drew on and the crocuses began to star the grass along the river and the sun to wheel wider and wider, the chill and the darkness began to fall more heavily on the household at Chelsea.

  41. On the return of the Tories to power, in 1841, he made a still wider departure from his early path.

  42. THE MAN (mounting some feet higher, and standing wider the banner upon a small terrace).

  43. It was a wider passage than that which she was leaving, and this fact added to her dismay.

  44. It was rather an appeal from the too technical court of science to the supposed wider and more unprejudiced court of popular intelligence.

  45. It will be seen from the preceding chapter that we regard the law of evolution in its wider sense, viz.

  46. But this fact need not specially disturb us here; for this is only one branch of the wider question of the moral agency of man in relation to the absolute sovereignty of God, or the freedom of man in relation to necessary law in Nature.

  47. Already the pressure from up stream was forcing the gash open, wider and wider---- There came a yell from across the river.

  48. The gash in the log showed wider and wider.

  49. He paid greater attention to the important question of thermometry, and extended his researches over a much wider range of temperature, namely 5 deg.

  50. The vale is no wider than to admit the road, a small gurgling river close to its side, with some narrow slips of rocky ground and shrubbery.

  51. This hollow or valley is much wider than to admit of being called a glen, being about 1-1/2 m.

  52. Mr. Matthews has himself a wider public, amply earned, and I should say that interest in New York has probably increased in pretty nearly equal measure with the change in its character.

  53. At this corner Suydam turned out of the side street, and went down a street no wider perhaps, but extending north and south in a devious and hesitating way not common in the streets of New York.

  54. He reached forward, and he found that the space was wider than he had thought.

  55. In the wider parts of the Vindhya chain, and northern part of the western Ghauts.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wider range; wider sense