Adjective : a wide boulevard. ,three feet wide. ,the wide plains of the West. ,wide experience. ,to stare with wide eyes. ,a guess wide of the truth. ,a shot wide of the mark. ,The pitch was wide of the plate. ,He wore wide, flowing robes. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : Open your mouth wide. ,to be wide awake. ,The shot went wide. ,scattered far and wide. ,The river runs wide here. From Dictionary.com.
Only the utmost limit of height, wideness and full. From Wordnik.com. [Our homes can be home to readings and recitations in Sanskrit] Reference
There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Race in Flannery O'Connor; vulgarity in Henry James] Reference
O, how did heaven receive her, who surpasses the wideness of the heavens?. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's tomb, a place of grace] Reference
Their eyes held the same wideness, their mouths the same open-lipped wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Looking forward to seeing the final project, I love the Cinemascope wideness. From Wordnik.com. [Frame 137 Teaser on Vimeo] Reference
She had always loved the sea -- its wideness, its mystery, its ever changing face. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. From Wordnik.com. [Ezekiel 41.] Reference
For the first time I understood the wideness of his vision and the grasp and range of his memory. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
And, as I did look, it grew very plain upon me how great was the spread and drear wideness of that. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
So I can't sit around getting wider or staying the same in my wideness while hubby addresses the issue. From Wordnik.com. [Fit Club - Report In! - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
This temple is sixty-four cubits of wideness, and as many in length; and of height it is six score cubits. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
If she had been frightened, only the wideness of her eyes and her somewhat heightened color had betrayed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
And that is not simply about the wideness of God's mercy, but also the need for humility about our own beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jesus the Only Way? Not according to most Christians...or the Bible!] Reference
Its very modernity embodies and imparts the charm, which will grow as the city grows in wideness and straightness. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
From the wideness of her blue eyes and the way she kept them on the floor, she had caught the mood of the women leaving. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
It may also mean, 'No one is able to enumerate all that is beneficial for the Soul in consequence of the wideness of subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
QUEST: And in the shadows, unclouded glare, deep blue above us fades to wideness, where a misty sea lion meets the wash of air. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2009] Reference
A fairly well-read man himself, for a sea-adventurer, he glimpsed a wideness of range and catholicity of taste that were beyond him. From Wordnik.com. [A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL] Reference
And indeed we poor, sinful, selfish creatures can never hope, at least here, to understand all the wideness, the depth, the power, of that love. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Lord, and have almost staggered at those promises -- the wideness of their scope, the fullness of their intent, the largeness of the one word "Whatsoever.". From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
But the shrewish look was contradicted by the curious lifted arch of her dark brows, and the wideness of her eyes; a look of startled wonder and vagueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
Three fifties of fosterlings could engage with handball against the wideness of his backside, which was large enough to halt the march of men through a mountain-pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Laugh] Reference
We shall have more morality in too much wideness than in too little. From Wordnik.com. [Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards] Reference
See what wideness of vibrato works well with that rhythmic composition. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
"To build the same of such large compass, form, wideness, and height as the playhouse called the Swan.". From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration] Reference
She stood on higher ground, indeed, but the wideness of the view, to her, only emphasized her loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [Their Yesterdays] Reference
The wedge-shaped single-piece tail lights also underline wideness and are plastically integrated into the design. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
But he wished its wideness had taken in his mother, who had a great fear of the evils lying in wait for unwary youth. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
(Those of you noting the discrepancy between the spec resolution and the general wideness of the screen: you're right to do so.). From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
It will read like a fairy tale to those who know nothing of the wideness of life on a great ranch as compared with our overcrowded. From Wordnik.com. [Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life] Reference
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