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How To Use widening In A Sentence

• The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• Through their work, the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience.
• But this volume considerably expands our understanding by widening the regional sphere of comparison and by taking on board issues of secrecy, cultural heritage and museology.
• Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris.
• Then, widening our focus, we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it.
• Among the projects that will be jumpstarted with this new funding are the Midtown Tunnel tube in Norfolk, the extension of HOV/HOT Lanes on I95/395 and the widening of I-66 in Northern Virginia, work on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, and the widening and improving of multiple sections of Route 58 in southern and western Virginia. UPDATED: Key Democratic panel approves McDonnell's transportation plan
• Sociologists Claude Fischer and Greggor Mattson have argued that while much talk about America fragmenting is overblown, “gaps by social class and educational attainment are widening among Americans by almost any measure.” American Grace
• Rather a major problem is that the financial gap between the prosperous and poorer classes has been widening.
• Most flood-control projects involve widening, deepening and straightening channels so they can hold a larger volume of water before they can inundate adjacent flood plains.
• The fee rollback will lead to a $7.5 billion widening of the state deficit over the next year and a half, according to Moody's.