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Sentences starting with wide

Wide awake, she waited for a moment to make sure that she was not mad, or that she was not asleep or in a half-dream. [11]
Wide West stock soared skywards. [5]
Wide stretches of meadow-land reached back from the Parish Church until they were lost in the darker verdure of the hills. [11]
Wide as the interval between them was, however, they became rivals too soon. [12]
Wide awake, and feverish and thirsty. [5]

Sentences ending with wide

He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
The Notch opened wide. [13]
His eyes opened wide. [11]
Greevy fired twice wide. [11]
The plains are wide and the path is long,--so long, so wide! [11]
Some of these were square, others round or polygonal, but most of them much longer than they were wide. [10]
This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide. [5]
We are cut up into parties of six or eight, and by this time are scattered far and wide. [5]
Her influence seemed to pierce far and wide. [11]
All this took time, for the Mississippi is not a French brook, like the Seine, the Loire, and those other rivulets, but is a real river nearly a mile wide. [5]

Short sentences using wide

It covered a wide field. [4]
He has a wide fame. [5]
Isn't the road wide enough? [2]
He fired--fired wide. [11]

Sentences containing wide two or more times

This was a wide, wide track--for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile--but its character was still the same. [12]
Higbie knew the Wide West rock perfectly well, and the more he had examined the new developments the more he was satisfied that the ore could not have come from the Wide West vein. [5]
It was a wide space; I could tell you how wide, in chains and perches and furlongs and things, but that would not help you any. [5]
His father had told him much, and the doctor still more, about the wide, wide world-kings, artists and great heroes. [10]
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. [5]
In these wide streets, almost as wide as a London square, there was room to move; nothing seemed huddled, pushing, or inconvenient. [11]
A wide, wide space must be between you; he must go away with them, far away. [10]
How narrow, how petty, how tiresome everything seemed, and what she had bartered for it was the world, the whole wide, wide world. [10]
This chute was not more than twice as wide and high as a Saratoga trunk, and was walled, roofed and floored with solid blocks of Egyptian granite as wide as a wardrobe, twice as thick and three times as long. [5]
The crowd gathered like magic in the wide street before the house--the one wide street in Manitou--from the roof and upper windows of which flames were bursting. [11]

More example sentences with the word wide in them

It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
They wore dresses with wide skirts and flounces, and queer low collars and bonnets. [9]
The scornful laugh, with which she had triumphantly ended her speech, had opened as it were a wide abyss between his mind and hers. [10]
The little houses with their sloping roofs and wide porches, the gardens ablaze with color, the neat palings,--all were a restful sight for our weary eyes. [9]
He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
Both were heavyset, with rather stern faces, both had close-cropped, tan-coloured mustaches and wide jaws, with blue eyes like Susan's. [9]
A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
The albino-style carries with it a wide pupil and a sensitive retina. [6]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
The best scheme will have the preference; and you seem to me to be the man to win the prize, and, with it, a wide and noble field of work in the future. [10]
By these it will be seen how wide a ground it covers. [6]
It had a wide, brownstone front, with a basement, and a high flight of steps leading up to the door. [9]
The avenue is wide, and the tracks will be in a grass plot in the centre. [9]
The world was wide, and France but a step away. [11]
The world is wide, and a cousin or two more or less can hardly be considered an essential of existence. [6]
Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? [10]
Who in the wide world had a right to accuse him of anything that could justify such a feeling? [10]
Ingolby's eyes opened wide when he saw Marchand's ugly game. [11]
Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way. [13]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
Fay lay, with wide staring eyes, in the shade of a gloomy wall. [13]
Nothing but the wide plain of snow and the steely air. [11]
Upon gaining the wide opening he decided to cross it and follow the left wall till he came to the cattle trail. [13]
The gate was wide open, and there sat-I knew him at once; who does not?--the Arch Enemy of mankind. [4]
The folding-doors are wide open to every Protestant to enter all the privileged precincts and private apartments of the various exclusive religious organizations. [6]
The windows were wide open also, and the scent of June roses came in, with all the languishing sounds of a summer night. [4]
Yes, you've swung wide on your tether; look out that you don't swing high, old man. [11]
Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered. [11]
Veille = a wide low settle. [11]
Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
It offered a wide gamut of intelligences, and the meetings were noteworthy occasions. [6]
She opened her wide eyes and gave him a stare, but answered nothing. [5]
All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. [5]
He must travel wide at first to convince their narrow brains. [11]
The desert is wide and there is room and to spare to starve in it, and for your bones to bleach there. [10]
Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite--but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? [5]
Peter the valet, who was now wide awake, had roused the doctor. [2]
The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
Mistress Kitty Fagan, who had kept her ears pretty wide open, carried them. [6]
She wore a white robe with wide, open sleeves, and her arms shone in the dim light as white as her garment. [10]
There was silence while the breakfast things were cleared away, and the window was thrown wide to the full morning sun. [11]
The vast mob which thronged the wide space beyond the shouting circle just round us was much like that of any other fair, so far as I could see from my royal perch. [6]
The country press, which had far and wide printed the interesting story, softened it in accordance with the later development. [4]
The wide opening, which extended downwards to within a few spans of the floor, was finished at either side by a tall pillar of fine reddish-brown porphyry, flecked with white, and crowned with gilt Corinthian capitals. [10]
Shorter's brown eyes, which became very wide and serious, too. [9]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
Wordsworth was wrong when he wrote: "'No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor: The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door--' For my wife's been her comrade. [11]
But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. [9]
Sobieski touched Barry Whalen's arm, and they all stood waiting while a hand slowly opened wide the door of the little room, and, white with a mastered agitation, Byng appeared. [11]
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
His greenish eyes were wide open in the fulness of eloquence and desire. [11]
Even princesses, who were separated from him by so wide a gulf, could not help favouring this man. [10]
Oh, if we were only across that wide, open waste of sage! [13]
Most of them were in conspicuous positions, and surrounded by wide acres. [9]
Inquiring as we went, we forded a wide creek in which soldiers were washing their clothes, the name of which we did not then know, but which must have been the Antietam. [6]
The young wife went out on the balcony with him, and he showed her in the south, where usually nothing but a green plain met the eye, a wide expanse over which a light mist was hovering. [10]
We thought it well to have a strong friend, and therefore we brought the foreman of the Wide West to our cabin that night and revealed the great surprise to him. [5]
Then came a week of what the Muncheners call hot weather, with the thermometer up to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, and the white wide streets and gray buildings in a glare of light; since then, weather of the most uncertain sort. [4]
Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide verandas, or double-verandas, supported by ornamental columns. [5]
Without reservoirs of wealth there would be no great universities, schools of science, museums, galleries of art, libraries, solid institutions of charity, and perhaps not the wide diffusion of culture which is the avowed aim of modern civilization. [4]
In their place we have to-day that American institution and apostle of wide humanity--Mark Twain. [5]
But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
Austen took his way slowly across the state-house park, threading among the groups between the snow-banks towards the wide facade of the Pelican Hotel. [9]
A man's life"--he watched her closely with his wide, benevolent eyes--"is neither here nor there, nor a few thousands, in the destiny of a nation. [11]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
The world indeed was wide, and these rooms had been her home. [9]
However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
What he wanted was to be free of mules and burros and steers, to roll in dust-patches, and then to run down the wide, open, windy sage-plains, and at night browse and sleep in the cool wet grass of a springhole. [13]
I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. [5]
All around her was the wide awe of night, enriched by the sweet perfume of a coming harvest. [11]
And the dew was still on the grass as she crossed the wide lawn and made her way around the lake to the path that entered the woods at its farther end. [9]
The deference that was paid to a desperado of wide reputation, and who "kept his private graveyard," as the phrase went, was marked, and cheerfully accorded. [5]
I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
When the scaffolding was erected in the winter riding-school, he went there under the court-artist's direction, to measure, arrange and finally transfer the painter's sketches to the wide surfaces. [10]
The wide vestibule was empty except for two men who stopped a low-toned conversation to look at me. [9]
Outside indeed it was dim and wet, but within it was no less comfortable, for a mighty fire was blazing in the wide chimney-place. [10]
The wide house was darkened and silent, and without a sunlight washed with gold filtered through the leaves. [9]
Its curved portico was capped by a wrought-iron railing, its long windows were touched with purple, and its low garret--set like a deckhouse on the wide roof--suggested hidden secrets of the past. [9]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
A mighty fire was blazing on the hearth and roaring up the wide chimney with a cheerful sound, which a large iron cauldron, bubbling and simmering in the heat, lent its pleasant aid to swell. [12]
On one side was a wide porch. [9]
The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire. [12]
Three miles away was a saw-mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake. [5]
Then Sleeping Beauty waked wide up, and from that day lost the name. [11]
He knew her voice, he heard her coming; his eyes opened wide, and he raised himself on the couch with a start. [11]
They long to visit the haunts of men, To see the old dwellings they knew again, And ride on their broomsticks all around Their wide domain of unhallowed ground. [6]
Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
I would not vex my darling, for the wide world's riches. [12]
The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn't see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. [5]
The day being very warm and the street a quiet one, the windows were wide open; and it was easy to hear through the Venetian blinds all that passed inside. [12]
He was a very small man with a very high stock and spreading collar, a thin face, and large wide eyes. [11]
It had a very nice bedroom with a wide bed in it; which I said I would take because I believed I was a little wider than Mr. Rogers--which turned out to be true; so I took it. [5]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]

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