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:

  • 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."

  • In the Family Therapy Network chat room, a posting on marijuana proved to be the most popular ever, prompting a wide-ranging adult discussion of law, professional responsibility, mental health, addiction, mind expansion, and above all, children.

  • In any case, the broader the net cast by the screening instrument that identifies individuals with alcohol problems, the more flexible and wide-ranging should be the referral and post-discharge options.

  • In an engaging, wide-ranging display of erudition, Firmage discusses the letters' symbological values in such diverse parlances as chemistry, music, ancient and modern mysticism (including far too much New Age material for my tastes), while quotes from such diverse figures as Joyce, Rabelais, Dostoyevsky, Bob Dylan--and Elmer Fudd--interlard the text.

  • 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.


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