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Example sentences for "widely"

Lexicographically close words:
widdowe; widdowes; widdy; wide; wideawake; widen; widened; wideness; widening; widenings
  1. It is a most worthy contribution, and is strong proof of the dominating force in the mind of Cutbush, namely, to make his science as widely useful as possible.

  2. Glancing through these volumes the impression made upon the reader was that the author had read widely in the sciences, but particularly in his favorite science, chemistry.

  3. Scotch and English history are widely invoked: now it is the time of the Georges, now of the Stuarts, now Elizabethan, again back to the Crusades.

  4. And whatever its abuses and degradations, the fourth estate is certainly one of the very few widely operative educational forces to-day, and has played an important part in spreading the idea of the brotherhood of man.

  5. Trollope, in his somewhat unsatisfactory biography of his fellow fictionist, very rightly puts his finger on a certain scene in "Vanity Fair" in which Sir Pitt Crawley figures, which departs widely from reality.

  6. It appears that the relics and worship of this saint were very widely spread through Europe, and some places seem to have claimed him as indigenous on the strength merely of possessing one of his toes or teeth.

  7. The first thought naturally was to publish Article after Article on this remarkable Volume, in such widely circulating Critical Journals as the Editor might stand connected with, or by money or love procure access to.

  8. Mr. Stephens has written a very valuable and meritorious book, which ought to be widely used.

  9. The pug marks were deeply sunk and widely spaced.

  10. It has been reported at different times from widely scattered places.

  11. It differs widely from the sculptures of Telloh, which are less refined and artistically advanced.

  12. This was no easy task, as they were widely distributed and, as I progressed, the number of uncatalogued monuments constantly increased.

  13. Asoka were written in places widely separated, for this may be explained by a desire to imitate as closely as possible the character of the original edict.

  14. Here I have found inscriptions of the early sort mingled with those of the XI dynasty in such a way as to show that they cannot have been widely separated in age.

  15. It came slowly, widely spaced, as if Gotch realized Crag's limitations in handling the intricate cipher system evolved especially for this one operation.

  16. The exterior of the second stage was smooth, finless, for it was designed to operate at the fringe of space where the air molecules were widely spaced; but it could be steered by small deflectors mounted in its blast stream.

  17. The opposite side has a square tower at the angle to the right, and to the left the house of the governor just beyond the entrance-gate; the walls splay out widely to the bottom of the ditch.

  18. No matter how widely a man's fancy may wander, his convictions must be planted on something.

  19. But something snapped that summer which sent the Norvals and Anderson Law whirling in widely different directions.

  20. The theory of capital punishments is much more subtle and widely ramified than we might at first suppose.

  21. But when public information and instruction are the objects, the doors are widely opened, and the press and its attaches find a way into this, as into many other sacred and forbidden spots.

  22. Designs of this nature were widely employed by the mediaeval church builders in France, and, although many of them were destroyed at the Revolution and at other times, several fine examples still exist.

  23. The materials available for the walls may vary widely in character according to the space they require for their proper growth and maintenance, and thus affect the amount of path-area.

  24. Of a widely different nature was the version published in 1729 by Samuel Croxall in his "Select Collection of Novels," Vol.

  25. Turf labyrinths were formerly of general occurrence throughout the country, for, in addition to those we have already described, we find remains of them in counties so widely separated as Kent and Cumberland.

  26. Everything was very nice at Singleton Terrace, but somehow cutlets there and here were two widely different matters.

  27. His ways with men and women were widely different.

  28. Cupid grinned so widely that all his shining row of white teeth showed against the blackness of his face like a row of candles.

  29. Silences differ as widely as speech, and Ingle's silence was no more like that of Mary Brent than the calm of a sunny day is like the electric stillness preceding storm.

  30. The preacher and the church were more widely known than any others in the Union, and during all his pastorate he was one of the most conspicuous figures in the country.

  31. So we see certain peoples, widely separated, whose common descent is made evident by affinity in their languages.

  32. This unscientific method of proof or persuasion has ever been widely popular.

  33. Perhaps we can explain the ancient intercourse of Europe with Tibet—a fact at no time widely known—by looking at what Hesychius has preserved on the matter.

  34. The country was large and the tribes were widely separated.

  35. Or again, an anemone may draw in its tentacles without apparent cause, and after a few minutes expand more widely than ever.

  36. An exhaustive account of the various works devoted to it, of the methods and results, could fill by itself a whole volume, and would widely exceed the limits of an account of the histology of the blood.

  37. In a case of acute widely distributed urticaria, A.

  38. In any case the substance causing the eosinophilia is more widely distributed than that to which the anæmic condition is due.

  39. This story is widely prevalent, and is current among the Flemish-speaking natives of Belgium.

  40. Connected with Machynlleth is a name not so widely celebrated as those of Glendower and Dafydd Gam, but well known to and cherished by the lovers of Welsh song.

  41. Hail to the widely conquering, The liberal, hospitable, kind, Trusty and keen as steel refined!

  42. His Welsh I had great difficulty in understanding, as it was widely different from that which I had been accustomed to.

  43. They resembled closely those of the other Algonkin nations, and were founded on those general mythical principles which, in my "Myths of the New World," I have shown existed widely throughout America.

  44. The same chieftain would, on various occasions, employ symbols differing so widely that they have no visible relation.

  45. Besides his legal studies, he was a widely read belles-lettres student, and his memory was most retentive of all sorts of literature, grave and gay, tragic and comic.

  46. Mr. Lincoln was alone, seated in his business room up stairs, looking toward Arlington Heights through a widely opened window.

  47. His public and political labors, though they have been widely known, are mere offshoots from his steady and habitual pastoral work in his own parish.

  48. In making our selection we find men of widely different spheres and characters.

  49. At this time Mr. Beecher carried this subject through New England and New York, in Lyceum lectures, and began a course of articles in the Independent, under the star signature, which were widely read.

  50. These seven debates were the most widely known of Mr. Lincoln's labors in this campaign, but he made about fifty other speeches in different parts of the State.

  51. The speech, however, was widely circulated, both here and in England, and was said by Cobden to be one of the noblest contributions ever made to the cause of peace.

  52. The fruits of growth must be widely shared.

  53. The following questions are taken from a widely used junior quarterly, the Bible text being Luke 10.

  54. These sixty-six books were centuries in the making, and they came from widely separated regions.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abroad; amply; broadly; infinitely; vastly; wide


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    widely different; widely diffused; widely distributed; widely known; widely separated; widely spoken; widely spread; widely used