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Example sentences for: widened

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John Walter Jones, chief executive of the Welsh Language Board, says that widened horizons may also be to blame: The world has widened and some of the things that used to be local have been lost in that widening process.
Tiananmen Square was substantially enlarged, Chang’an Avenue widened, the Great Hall of the People built, the Museum of History and the Museum of the Revolution opened — all in the 1950s.
It is not surprising, semantically speaking, that the word widened its meaning so quickly since it naturally lent itself (as did closet ) to the description of a solitary place, one where people performed lavatorial functions.
The nuclear gap between the two countries has widened in India's favor: "Pakistan's generals may not mind sacrificing a few hundred of their soldiers and Afghan mercenaries to Indian air strikes, but they are not going to expose their own cities to needless risk."
creative `adjective, euphemistic going beyond conventional scope or legal limits .. This new meaning of creative, with its implication of imaginative rule-bending for possibly disreputable purposes, appears to have been coined in the field of accountancy .. , but has since widened its area of application considerably.