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:

  • A new constitution granted wide-ranging powers to the regions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Of course, the fact that the United States and China reached a deal on a wide-ranging trade agreement is a nice symbolic statement of part of the reason why U.S. stocks are so much more valuable today than they were a decade ago.

  • 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.


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