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Sentences ending with wider

Willie's grin grew wider. [9]
In imagination it opened wider and wider. [4]
It was as if two friends parted on a wide plain, the one to journey towards the setting and the other towards the rising sun, each comprehending that every, step henceforth must separate their lives, wider and wider. [5]
Now the eyes a little wider. [11]

Sentences containing wider two or more times

There she struck the new and aggressive note of emancipation from the restricted self-sacrifice of the old order, of wider service for the unnamed and the unknown; and, above all, for the wider self-realization of which service is but a by-product. [9]
It is well the alleys are not wider, because they hold as much smell now as a person can stand, and of course, if they were wider they would hold more, and then the people would die. [5]
We began the long winding ascent of the canyon, toward the "divide," and presently the cabins began to grow infrequent, and the intervals between them wider and wider, and then I began to breathe tolerably freely and feel less like a thief and a murderer. [5]

More example sentences with the word wider in them

He will tell you that many facts are explained by studying them in the wider range of related facts to which they belong. [3]
His thoughts, as yet, have no wider range than home. [12]
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. [11]
His world is wider, and it is all open to him to go where he will. [4]
I get a wider view when I stand off--at home. [4]
He appeared taller, wider of shoulder, deeper-chested, more powerfully built. [13]
The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
This insures a wider distribution, but what is its effect upon the quality of literature? [4]
Exercise now a wider compassion, and reflect that Fate has called you to take care of a hapless creature raving in fever and hard to deal with. [10]
A woman, of whom she enquired, directed her down a wider street that would take her into the Canopic Way. [10]
The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed. [12]
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides. [2]
I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. [5]
But Tom McChesney was the best wrestler of the lot, and could make a wider leap than any other man in Harrodstown. [9]
What he held was that the artificial differences springing from the social union were disproportionate to the capacities springing from the original constitution; and that society, as now organized, tends to make the gulf wider between those who have privileges and those who have none. [4]
In 1853 (he was not yet eighteen) Sam Clemens grew tired of his limitations and pined for the wider horizon of the world. [5]
It brightened to waning shadow in the wider ascent. [13]
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]
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. [4]
All we have to do is to spread the average over a wider territory or a longer period of time. [6]
Mamma seems to think that society will do a great deal for me, that I will get a wider view of life, that I can do so much for society, and, with my position, mamma says, have such a career. [4]
Even in Ratisbon there was not a handsomer, wider street than this Altstadt, with its stately gable-roofed houses, and certainly not in Munich, where her uncle had once taken her, and the Bavarian dukes now resided. [10]
I believe that 'The Weavers' represents a wider outlook of life, closer understanding of the problems which perplex society, and a clearer view of the verities than any previous book written by me, whatever its popularity may have been. [11]
The wider became the watery expanse between him and Spain, the farther receded Isabella's memory, the less alluring and delightful grew the thought of possessing her hand. [10]
The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders. [2]
Hugh had inherited the nose, but the father's forehead was wider and fuller. [9]
They opened wider the lane for him to pass through, and he made his way, erect and somewhat defiant, to Mr. Pryse's, the coachmaker opposite, holding me by the hand. [9]
The idea behind the company was a public-spirited one, to give the citizens cheaper and better service, by a more modern equipment, by a wider system of transfer. [9]
Isn't there one that won't smirch her soul and kill the faith of those that love her for some moment's excitement, for gold to gratify a vanity, or to have a wider sweep to her skirts? [11]
If the author succeeds in any degree, his spirit rises to another attempt in the hope of a wider recognition. [4]
Next morning early she went through the French Pass--a narrow gateway of rock, between bold headlands--so narrow, in fact, that it seemed no wider than a street. [5]
I dare say she had a little flutter of pride in receiving him, in her consciousness of the change in herself into a wider experience of the world. [4]
The hairless patches on a scalded dog are preferred by the fleas of Constantinople to a wider range on a healthier dog; and the exposed places suit the fleas exactly. [5]
Now, in his old age, he found his fame still local, and he yearned for wider recognition. [5]
Other things are of small importance to them; and yet the special discipline first gains value in connection with the rest or the wider province of the allied sciences. [10]
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. [11]
He is more of a man, he lives in a higher plane of thought and of enjoyment, the more his communications are extended with his fellows and the wider his sympathies are. [4]
But the name of _this_ valley doth woundily differ from the name of _that_ one; indeed to differ wider were not pos--" "What was that name, then? [5]
No high aim, no desire to accomplish good and great things in wider spheres, influenced the thoughts and actions of this couple. [10]
Your family is much wider, because you're a genius. [11]
He had a mind, an intellect, he must possess stores of the knowledge for which she thirsted; he appeared to her as one who had studied and travelled, who had ascended heights and gained the wider view denied her. [9]
He guessed two miles wider of the mark than I did. [5]
Rather would he lose his life as a rebel, or wander an exile through the world and seek far from home a wider field for deeds of prowess, than put his free neck under the feet of the foe. [10]
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. [4]
Besides, politics were kept from us, and this had become known in wider circles when we entered the institute, for most of the pupils belonged to loyal families. [10]
As they emerged into the wider road-paths that began half-way down the mountain, the Cure, who had watched his brother's face for a long time in silence, said: "What is in your mind, Marcel? [11]
The wider the intellect, the larger and simpler the expressions in which its knowledge is embodied. [6]
But she sensed, in their presence, from references casually let fall in their conversation, a wider culture of which they were in possession, a culture at once puzzling and exciting, one that she despaired of acquiring for herself. [9]
The timbers used in the construction of Solomon's Temple were floated to Jaffa in rafts, and the narrow opening in the reef through which they passed to the shore is not an inch wider or a shade less dangerous to navigate than it was then. [5]
These were three in number, and I thought that each of them was about as long as three street cars placed end to end, though of course they are a third wider and a third higher than a street car. [5]
Our travelers stopped in Chicago long enough to see that they could make their fortunes there in two week's tine, but it did not seem worth while; the west was more attractive; the further one went the wider the opportunities opened. [5]
A riot seemed imminent--a riot Antonelli feared and firmly opposed, since it would alienate the sympathy of that wider public in the country on which the success of the strike depended. [9]
In this the highest of created things are under a law having a much wider application. [4]
Did this man hide, under his brusqueness and brevity of speech, the fund of wisdom and the wider sympathy and understanding he suspected? [9]
In this way he turned a sharp angle of the rock and found himself on a natural platform, which lay in front of one of the wider fissures,--whether the mouth of a cavern or not he could not yet tell. [6]
At every instant he grew more and more uneasy, he climbed to the top of a sand-hill to obtain a wider view, and loudly called Klea's name. [10]
He would only have a wider scope to injure himself. [5]
The experienced pilot had been obliged to steer the boat in a wider curve against the wind through the open sea, and was delayed a long time by a number of the war vessels of the fleet. [10]
Not content with giving the news, or even with creating news and increasing its sensational character, it grasps at the wider field of supplying reading material for the million, usurping the place of books and to a large extent of periodicals. [4]
I lay there fretting over this injury, and trying to go to sleep; but the harder I tried, the wider awake I grew. [5]
She leaned slightly forward, as if she were peering into that by-gone world which, maybe, is wider than the future for all of us--the past. [11]
Obsolete as this expression sounds to our ears, the phrase laws of the universe, which we use so constantly with a wider application, appears to me essentially identical with it. [3]
He opened the door a little wider, and looked critically at Mr. Vane. [9]
She opened the door a little wider, a very little, and he went in. [9]
It had all culminated in a visit of royalty to their place in Suffolk, from which she had emerged radiantly and delicately aggressive, and sweeping a wider circle with her social scythe. [11]
This single illustration covers a wider ground than the special function to which it belongs. [3]
Other and wider considerations come in. [4]
It may well compare with others of the finest memorial poems in the language,--with Shelley's "Adonais," and Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis," leaving out of view Tennyson's "In Memoriam" as of wider scope and larger pattern. [6]
It had been brought from Holland, and was far larger and wider than bedsteads of the present day. [10]
Some of the brethren might get hold of the wrong leg, in the confusion, and the wrong skull, and find themselves limping, and looking through eyes that were wider apart or closer together than they were used to. [5]
The change within Baltimore is part only of a far wider change. [7]
Next arrived my aunt, in a wide calash and a wider hoop, her stays laced so that she limped, and her hair wonderfully and fearfully arranged by her Frenchman. [9]
It is not any wider than Broadway in New York. [5]
It seems wider and more busy than it used to be. [12]
Furthermore, he had already aspired to a wider field of literary effort. [5]
With the world-conquering Alexander, the world-embracing Aristotle, appropriating anatomy and physiology, among his manifold spoils of study, marched abreast of his royal pupil to wider conquests. [3]
Here men live according to the law of the knife, fork, and bottle, yet nowhere in the world is there deeper national morality or wider faith or endurance. [11]
He gave me a world of misinformation; and the further he went, the wider his imagination expanded, and the more he enjoyed his cruel work of deceit. [5]
Happily, too, there's a wider market for some sorts of apprentice literature than there is for the very best of journey-work. [5]
His talents demanded a wider field. [9]
It made, however, a much wider circuit than they had supposed, and thus they were tempted onward until sunset, when they reached the track of which they were in search, and stopped to rest. [12]
Our reverence is a great deal wider, if it is less intense. [6]
There was about a foot of water in the insignificant river--or maybe two feet; the stream was not wider than a back alley in a village, and its banks were scarcely higher than a man's head. [5]
He rode through a dark constriction of the pass no wider than the lane in the grove at Cottonwoods. [13]
But mind this: the more we observe and study, the wider we find the range of the automatic and instinctive principles in body, mind, and morals, and the narrower the limits of the self-determining conscious movement. [6]

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