Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: widened
IPA transcription: [w'aɪdənd]
Usage examples
  • Everts' eyes widened briefly.
  • The streets have been widened, many of them, and are kept clean.
  • Then his eyes widened and met mine in a gaze that reflected the mystification and wonder that struck both of us.
  • Moreover, they do not confine themselves to local heroes; their range of choice has been widened by hearing much of what is not usually considered to interest children.
  • The trousers of the young men widened at the bottom, and their hands were proudly calloused by the oft-plied oar. Fishermen were under the spell of a deep and tolerant joy.
  • He circled about it at a distance that alternately narrowed and widened and that still wasn't much affected by the consciousness in him that there was nothing she could "know," after all, any better than he did.
  • On his return to America he published a 'View of the conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States,' which widened the breach between him and the administration, but socially Monroe remained upon good terms with both Washington and Jay.