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.
So what explains the widening gap? Times, Sunday Times
As a result there is a widening gap between supply and demand. Times, Sunday Times
The worrying thing is that the gap is widening between what is advertised and what people get in reality," he said. Computing
The corporate bond market remains unsettled, with junk spreads widening again this week.
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
He waits for this to sink in, and I oblige by widening my eyes and licking my chapped lips.
This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier.
The widening valuation gap makes it tough to resurrect the nuptials. Times, Sunday Times
The widening gulf was bridged by borrowing. Times, Sunday Times
Increasingly, researchers have attempted to conceptualize speaker variables in such a way as to solve a widening range of substantive problems.
Moreover, price trends have a political dimension, with rural inflation now atypically stronger than that in urban areas, potentially fuelling tensions over the widening wealth gap in the country.
I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his highpriest's hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
This causes a widening of the diaphragm muscle opening known as a hiatal hernia. Medlogs - Recent stories
Now, economic worries are rising fastest in households with smaller paychecks, and that chasm is widening. Americans increasingly concerned on economic future
When the resulting flight from asset-backed commercial paper caused exposures to come back on to the balance sheets of banks that had sponsored such programs, uncertainty about some banks 'exposures raised their funding costs, most notably in the term interbank market, as evidenced by widening LIBOR spreads. Lacker Speech on Financial Stability
There is a widening split between senior managers and the rest of the workforce.
While awaiting the widening of 16th Avenue N.W., you can broaden your acquaintance with poetry at Annie's Book Co.
The removal of spurs in a river valley therefore has the effect of widening and deepening the valley. Geography Basic Facts
But (as with houses) differences were widening. The English Civil War: A People's History
The creation of a buffer and the widening of the footpaths using the green areas will narrow the street.
The vast and widening gulf between imports and exports tells a troubling story. Times, Sunday Times
In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
As the word left his lips, "whizz," Jimmy's minnow landed in the middle of the circles widening about the rise of the Bass. At the Foot of the Rainbow
The widening opportunities for consumerism and shopping enhanced the scope for women to make decisions and spend money.
He said yesterday his first priorities would be to tackle inflation and the widening trade gap.
This paper analyzes the disadvantageous effect of the widening of income differences.
Widening the scope is worthwhile (why not do the same to dudes?), as is narrowing it (why sexualize any fear and death, when in RL both fear and death are very unsexy things?). Intertribal: women in horror, the legend continues
Round in a circle the widening fissure raced, ringing Lord Vulpine and all his men, penning them inside a vast ditch. A TIME OF WAR
We have only to note the way groups of workers use widening or narrowing differentials in the pay structure to argue for wage increases to see the truth of George's statement.
The net result was a widening gene pool and an altogether hardier national herd.
It seems that the trade gap is widening .
But an increase in the dollar makes US exports more expensive in world markets and cheapens imports, thereby widening the trade gap and creating the need for an even greater inflow of foreign funds.
The MoD has argued against allowing a widening of the scope of the evidence. The Sun
In a trice, scores of moccasins were widening the space of beaten snow by the fire. The Sun of the Wolf
On the soundtrack, disembodied voices form a chorus of simmering urban resentment, describing life on the streets and the widening gulf between rich and poor.
Ever wonder whether retired superheroes are subject to widening midsections and bad backs?
In other words, the widening gap between pension provision in the public and private sector will not just lead to widening social inequality, it will also become a block to Scotland's economy growth.
Hostility to the existing political setup is being exacerbated by growing unemployment lines and widening social inequality.
How will widening the 10p tax band be made to look like a tax cut for everybody?
The modest widening in New Zealand's net international investment position once again highlights "the long-standing vulnerability for the NZ economy and the unlikelihood of a credit rating upgrade any time soon in our eyes," Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin said in a note. New Zealand Current Account Deficit Widens
For five rainy days he tramped ever-widening circles out from the base, traversing ridges and saddles and moiling through valleys while the armed guard followed him every step of the way.
There are very large and probably widening socio-economic differentials in mortality in Britain.
She struggled to keep her composure but couldn't keep her eyes from widening in shock. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Between the orangery, which is in this widening, and the piece of water, the banks of which are agreeably decorated, stands the Little Castle of which I have spoken. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
The contract for the primary work, which is expected to take 26 weeks and includes widening the pier and refacing the sea-wall, has been awarded to contractors Balfour Beatty.
This is despite a range of widening participation initiatives. Times, Sunday Times
The cross-party group also wants league tables showing how universities and employers are widening access to those from all backgrounds. The Sun
But, by widening the choices for marketing and consumption, they helped undermine the economies of many small towns dependent on local trade.
The widening gulf was bridged by borrowing. Times, Sunday Times
The worrying thing is that the gap is widening between what is advertised and what people get in reality," he said. Computing
The widening white V of the wake spread out from the stern like a fan-shaped contrail. AMBERBEACH
The development of lobation in later growth stages is mainly expressed in the widening and deepening of sulci.
Love that casts a widening pool of light. Times, Sunday Times
No, it might be a better investment to give every footslogger extra rations in the form of new courts, coaches and clubs; to increase the height of the pyramid by widening its base, rather than simply adding to its summit a fragile spike. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Our children will never have equal opportunity unless, once and for all, we close the ever-widening achievement gap.
The mills embarked on a modernisation programme that included the building of a new hydro-electric scheme, widening of the lade, and a modern power plant.
It could be said, of course, that the time apparently wasted in these effectless studies could have been well spent in deepening and widening a knowledge of English literature never yet too great, and I have often said this myself; but then, again, I am not sure that the studies were altogether effectless. Literature and Life (Complete)
This silent divide will almost certainly lead to widening divisions in the sector based on individual and institutional privilege.
Some guidebooks describe this ridge as relentless, and it is, but underfoot conditions are good and it's just a question of plodding upwards with ever widening views all around you as consolation.
That unequal distribution of income exacerbated an already widening gulf in income.
Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs -- then rolling down through channels of marble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums, and many-colored ranunculi. New Tabernacle Sermons
She grunted, her eyes widening as his knee pushed into her stomach roughly and violently.
The scheme will include a widening of Cemetery Road, new signage and additional car parking space.
Talk about turning and turning in the widening gyre, I looked up the quotation above, and what do I get?
The widening powers of the state were agreed to be beneficial not only in wartime but in peace as well.
I could feel this slap-happy punch-drunk idiot grin appear on my face, widening exponentially.
I've been turning and turning in the widening gyre.
Rising expectations were fuelled by increasing affluence and a widening gap between people's experiences in other sectors of consumption and public services.
The scheme includes widening the path, moving gullies and streetlights, and putting in new kerbing.
They are also keen on widening participation. Times, Sunday Times
They are creepingly (ph) widening their zone of occupation. CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008
Yet opposition to the established position was beginning to be voiced in widening circles. Secrets of the Soil
Pressure for some parliamentary reform, with a redistribution of seats and a widening of the franchise, began to develop.
While e-mail brings an ever widening range of issues to the notice of an average user, it also causes an information overload.
As well as riding the Cairngorm funicular and the Nevis Range gondola, visitors are being encouraged to pursue a widening variety of warm weather sports.
Toward the end of his ministry, he led the church out of the Baptist Union because of the widening influence of theological liberalism in the Union.
There's little glory in mundane tasks like fixing roundabouts and widening slip roads. Times, Sunday Times
Although most of the participants feel it an intrusion that every 7 years, a film crew comes into their lives to chronical their successes and failures, their widening waistlines and gray hair count and wrinkle count, their loss of their parents and other close family members, the success and failure of marriages, etc. THE UP DOCUMENTARIES « FranksFilms
It now needs public support in widening the scope of the research through thoughts and opinions on a range of issues.
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
Shenstone describes in his "Thoughts on Gardening," several artifices that he put in practice for increasing the apparent distance of objects, or for lengthening the perspective of an avenue by widening it in the foreground and planting it there with dark-foliaged trees, like yews and firs, "then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow or silver osier. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
Citing the country's aggressive unions, widening wealth gaps, a faltering education system, low workforce participation and a public sector often paralyzed by bureaucratic red tape, the British magazine recently claimed that Israel's "engines of growth are punier than they look. Richard Z. Chesnoff: ISRAEL AT 61: A LESSON TO BE LEARNED
It causes your body to take in more oxygen, by widening the bronchial tubes. SUMMER OF SECRETS
The widening investigation into the drug, called cyclodextrin, highlights the surprising twists drug-research efforts can take as medications targeted for one disease end up being used for very different purposes. Surprising New Uses for Older Drugs; HIV Vaccine?
But such a measure would have a profound effect in widening the investor pool. Times, Sunday Times
Other procedures to unblock the bile ducts are called ERCP and PTC - they involve widening the bile duct and inserting a tube to drain the blocked fluids.
So what explains the widening gap? Times, Sunday Times
Brahms's effects may be more monochrome, but his subtle shadings and long solos added further possibilities to the widening orchestral palette.
There's little glory in mundane tasks like fixing roundabouts and widening slip roads. Times, Sunday Times
Given newspapers to read, he could make no headway because everything, every headline, opened out to widening associations.
The concern of these groups has grown in response to a perceived widening of the gap between cherished moral values and actual day-to-day behaviour.sentence dictionary
Widening numbness has abated the pain to his pelvis.
She jumped at the light tap on her shoulder, eyes widening in panic as she spun around quickly to stare into Sakura's amused dark eyes.
Hence the system generates ever more illth, waste, and ever-widening disparities between rich and poor. Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1
Many previously said points were re-iterated, such as the central parity will remain fixed, but the mechanism will go through a change in "gradualism" widening gap is one of them. - see English re-cap here. Archive 2005-08-01
Then the ground shook, the lightning cracks in the saltpan widening around the base of each cross. Asimov's Science Fiction
In many respects the least widely recognized of the three massive social transformations whose links with religion we are examining in this chapter and the next is the steadily widening gap between haves and have-nots in America. American Grace
If the widening of the wage differential is allowed to proceed unchecked, it threatens to create within our own country a social problem of major proportions.
Moreover, price trends have a political dimension, with rural inflation now atypically stronger than that in urban areas, potentially fuelling tensions over the widening wealth gap in the country.
The chest x-ray showed no demonstrable superior mediastinal widening, hilar mass, lung mass or pleural effusion.
Pillar widening is a good hypothesis for creep rate reduction in mines.
The splendid job of roadwidening and erection of new fencing on the stretch of road from Donnellon's Cross to the new housing estate and from the quarry road to the new cemetery is much acclaimed.
It doesn't contraindicate an aggressive response, but it does indicate bringing to justice * only* the specific individuals responsible, and avoiding, at great cost if necessary, widening the conflict. UR 2Good 2B 4Gotten
Not everyone likes these cobbled trails but not that long ago this path was thirty feet wide, a swathe of mud and peat, ever-widening as more and more walkers tried to avoid the morass in the middle.
Many small muscles are attached to these, and their action can vary the size of the aperture, by pulling the arytenoids apart or drawing them nearer together, widening or narrowing the ‘V’.
It leads to vasodilation - or widening of blood vessels. The Sun
The contract will in effect involve the widening of all the remaining three-lane sections of the M25 to four lanes, and cover 100 km of the London orbital motorway.
As a result there is a widening gap between supply and demand. Times, Sunday Times
City officials say the channel-widening project will improve the aquatic food supply of the birds, so joggers may see more cormorants diving into the lake for fish. After Long Wait, Lake Merritt Restoration Takes Shape
Hence, a refutation of Acheson may benefit many Chinese by widening their horizon.
They are also keen on widening participation. Times, Sunday Times
The council's ideas include widening footways, narrowing short stretches of the road, improving bus waiting areas, tackling obstructive street furniture and making the route more attractive and easier to walk with repaving.
A double-digit rise in the welfare budget for two consecutive years is also inevitable, considering both the widening income gap and scanty social safety net.
During the summer, work began on two billion-dollar projects in California - the I-215 Widening Project in San Bernardino, which is using $128 million in ARRA funds to reduce traffic congestion that had been crippling the local economy, and the other using $189.9 million in ARRA funds to add Media Newswire
The main problem now for the scientists is how best to impregnate the rock with the chemicals meant to prevent the widening of large cracks that are forming rapidly.
Wage differences in the two areas are widening.
Now at the door of the observatory, Dorothy paused and shrank back against Seaton, her eyes widening as she stared at Orlon. Skylark Three
The widening of awareness and gaining of new insight associated with the latter is clearly identified with the aesthetic domain.
The conjunction of events marks a widening of the challenge posed by San Francisco's mayor, who last month authorised wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.
The road widening will uproot 46 oak trees and damage wildlife habitat.
This happens as a result of the irritation and widening of the tiny blood vessels in the conjunctiva.
The reward for their gullibility was a widening of the war (s), a continuing neglect of Constitutional principles, a failure to prosecute those who had lied us into one misadventure after another, a retreat from any single-payer "Medicare for All" healthcare reform, a watering down of climate change initiatives, a postponement of most legislation that would have brought some justice to gay/Lesbian citizens, and a sad abandonment of promises for transparency and open-ness in the Executive branch. You Get What you Vote For!
There is nothing you can do to alter your clavicles or hip bones, so you need to focus on widening your delts and upper lats.
“When we have a child, I hope it's a boy and I hope he's old enough so I can show him a lunar eclipse and explain that's God's way of showing men how their mouth should act when a woman willingly opens their galaxy to him, prayerful and slowly widening.” No More Stories About The Moon
The cross-party group also wants league tables showing how universities and employers are widening access to those from all backgrounds. The Sun
Despite dedication to widening access and recruitment, the civil service is largely staffed by the stereotypical CVs in its upper echelons. Times, Sunday Times
There are bound to be clubs and other ways of widening your social circle. The Sun
The council has put its road - widening scheme on ice until it has the money to pay for it.
I took part in the campaign to try to save 371 repairable homes in the Edge Lane district, from a road-widening scheme connecting the city centre with the M62. How all politicians have made a mess of my beloved Merseyside | Alexei Sayle
Asian migrants can gain access into the nation - at least into the nation's widening periphery - by approximating blackness (or brownness or redness, for that matter) rather than whiteness.
In the human body, vasodilation refers to the widening of what? Times, Sunday Times
This is despite a range of widening participation initiatives. Times, Sunday Times
The result has been a sharp widening in the differential between the wages of highly skilled and low-skilled labor in the United States and other advanced countries.
All but the most creditworthy of borrowers now have to pay a widening premium to account for the possibility of default.
Having spent the past decade fighting ecoterrorism, Barry's fight for justice is widening.
For widening the market, the company is sincerely recruiting domestic regional exclusive agents to face huge challenges and build nice future together.
Among writers in the North Ibsen began to hold very much the position that Whistler was taking among painters and etchers in this country, that is to say the abuse and ridicule of his works by a dwindling group of elderly conventional critics merely stung into more frenzied laudation an ever-widening circle of youthful admirers. Henrik Ibsen
At times you are watching with eyes-widening horrified fascination for what Doc Smith topping superweapon that he can come up with next. Superhero Prose Fiction: Cormac - 5 Line War
The widening of educational opportunity in the immediate post-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content.
Their eyes focused on the other's until they were nothing more than pinpricks interrupted by the continuing flow of bodies passing through the widening space between them.
For example, the condition acne rosacea is caused by permanent widening of the blood vessels of the skin of the cheeks and nose.
By widening the field to include all forms of film experimentation, by tracing a historical line from Marey to today, this book proposes new reflexions.
He also promoted a widening of women's ministry in his campaign to restore the female diaconate against strong conservative oppression.
Widening the road would improve traffic flow.
The social gap is evidently widening yet the better off members of society still claim they pay too much.
Individual response in secondary reticulation at high altitude is observed as widening of the longitudinally elongated secondary meshes and increased coverage of isomorphic meshes from the apex up to half of the elytral length. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The worrying thing is that the gap is widening between what is advertised and what people get in reality," he said. Computing
The Labour government has presided over a widening of the gap between rich and poor.
With the shrinking cost and widening range of mobile phones, its services were quickly rendered obsolete.
As a technologically illiterate parent, I could only wave forlornly from the other side of the widening technological divide.
THE gap between the savings of the haves and have-nots is widening alarmingly. Times, Sunday Times
But (as with houses) differences were widening. The English Civil War: A People's History
For all I know, the company may have toyed with the idea of slightly widening the nozzle on the windscreen-washer jets.
Members of the battalion spent their two-week rotation bulldozing, clearing, flattening and widening the six-mile trail, which is owned by the Stark County Park District.
In-situ check experiments testify that the spiral V-notch blasting is applicable to engineering projects and have a good advantage in controlling the size of blasted blocks and widening blasted range.
She gasped in mock horror, widening her eyes and her mouth forming an ‘o’ shape.
The cross-party group also wants league tables showing how universities and employers are widening access to those from all backgrounds. The Sun
With long-term interest rates rising, with housing peaking, with the refi stimulus set to wane, and with businesses so keen on boosting productivity instead of payrolls, a widening trade gap would be one more potential drag on growth.
It has led to declining standards of living and widening income disparities.
Despite dedication to widening access and recruitment, the civil service is largely staffed by the stereotypical CVs in its upper echelons. Times, Sunday Times
The worrying thing is that the gap is widening between what is advertised and what people get in reality," he said. Computing
Abdominal fat cells happily inflate to accommodate more fuel, widening your waist inch by inch.
As a widening income gap has pushed up welfare rolls in recent years, struggling cities like Kitakyushu have been un-der intense pressure to tighten eligibility.
Wardley Hall, a scheduled ancient monument containing grade I and II listed buildings, could be affected by widening near junction 14.
Considering that road-widening is forever a ticklish issue in the State, what is the way out?
There is a widening difference in values and perspectives between Americans serving in our armed forces, including the Army, and the society they serve.
The widening of awareness and gaining of new insight associated with the latter is clearly identified with the aesthetic domain.
Males have a matt black coat, with white socks and a widening black stripe on the front of their forelegs.
After 1900 an entirely separate line of inquiry centered on the pharmacological actions of histamine, which, when administered intravenously to anesthetized animals, caused vasodilatation or widening of the systemic arterioles and a steep decline in systemic blood pressure. The Mad Among Us
However, now the spread is widening as rising Center Gulf and falling PNW rates reflect efforts by vessel operators to keep surplus capacity in the Pacific before going to the Atlantic.
We made a hasty exit back up to the beach and, before long, the water was once again a maelstrom of ever-widening rips, eddies and whirlpools.
They may include more major alterations, such as widening a door for a wheelchair.
There is nothing you can do to alter your clavicles or hip bones, so you need to focus on widening your delts and upper lats.
A widening gender pay gap is created and overall, working mothers' employment potential becomes limited.
Overall we see this as part of a widening of the way we deliver higher education. Times, Sunday Times
Ten-year yields set a record low this week as investors snapped up Treasuries on signs of slowing growth and a widening debt crisis in Europe, undeterred by Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. Bill Gross at Pacific Investment Management Co. said in a Twitter posting that investors should "be leery" of what he called "exuberance" that sent stocks up and bonds down yesterday. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Building roads, widening of roads, laying underground cables or pipelines - for all such work, trees are a big hurdle!
The widening valuation gap makes it tough to resurrect the nuptials. Times, Sunday Times
But to these were added a widening conspectus of secular factual and imaginative literature, that led to the emergence of relatively new forms of publication such as the newspaper, the journal, and the novel.
It would lead him to go on to challenge and re-define jazz and fusion music, widening its appeal to a mass audience.
Love that casts a widening pool of light. Times, Sunday Times
She took a drink of her vodka sour, then looked out over the club, her eyes widening.
It has latterly become the widening festival of universal brotherhood with succor for all need and nighness to all suffering; of good will warring against ill will and of peace warring upon war. Bride of the Mistletoe
Last night there were signs that the revolt by women ministers was widening. Times, Sunday Times
Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from The War in the Air
We made a hasty exit back up to the beach and, before long, the water was once again a maelstrom of ever-widening rips, eddies and whirlpools.
Despite dedication to widening access and recruitment, the civil service is largely staffed by the stereotypical CVs in its upper echelons. Times, Sunday Times
Jay does not flinch from deploring two of the biggest consequences of the penetration of market forces to almost every part of the globe; the threat to the environment and the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor.
Curiously, she unclasped the box and lifted up the lid, her emerald eyes widening in excitement from what she saw inside.
They passed other crews of men, surveyors with transits, chainmen, stake drivers, ax gangs widening the path through the timber. North of Fifty-Three

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