Example sentences for: wide-ranging

How can you use “wide-ranging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Los Angeles Times and New York Times lead with (and the Wall Street Journal tops its front-page world-wide news box with) yesterday's wide-ranging law enforcement action on the trail of the Algerian terrorist group implicated in that bomb-smuggling arrest in Washington state two weeks ago, action that netted a number of arrests in different cities, including one of an Algerian living in Brooklyn who had recently traveled to Seattle.

  • Rice noted at the time that a more wide-ranging examination of policy toward Afghanistan was needed first.

  • Naval skirmishes ensued between the two powers, but at the end of the war of succession between Portugal and Castile, the wide-ranging Treaty of Alcaçovas ended Lisbon’s claims to the Fortunate Islands.

  • A wide-ranging discussion then ensued about "breaking the back" of Bin Ladin's organization.

  • But it added Pakistan must "undertake a wide-ranging review of its foreign policy, economic planning and defence and security strategy" if it is to be "adequately prepared to meet the critical situation which India's brazen nuclear ambitions have created in South Asia."


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