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Example sentences for "widespread"

Lexicographically close words:
wideness; widening; widenings; widens; wider; widespreading; widest; widgeon; widin; widish
  1. But maybe the practice most widespread and fatal to an appreciation of books of real worth and power is the addiction to "juveniles" in the ever issuing series.

  2. Much of Malory is retained in the former, and the conventional drawings in the latter make a strong appeal despite the widespread mania for colour.

  3. This is a reflection of a widespread impression in American life that up to the present time but little truth of substantial value as to methods of living and thinking has been found out.

  4. Since no movement towards agreement manifested itself, but only evidence of widespread and various divergence, he laid the Prime Minister's invitation before the Convention.

  5. The Phoenix Park murders had created widespread indiscriminating anger against all Irish Nationalists throughout the Empire, and Redmond found it difficult to secure even a hall to speak in.

  6. They all admitted that their concept was widespread among their fellow church members and that it had little appeal.

  7. Moralism is perhaps the most widespread of all the concepts that we are now discussing.

  8. As might be expected laxity of rule and widespread proprietas brought immorality in their train and Busch in several cases mentions that a convent was ill-famed for incontinence.

  9. Certainly there is widespread evidence of frailty on the part of individuals, and there are one or two serious cases in which a whole house was obviously in a bad condition.

  10. Another theme, which is almost as widespread as that of the eloping nun, is that known as l'abbesse grosse.

  11. The widespread ramifications of the lymphatic system would naturally give rise to eccentric inflammations in place of those following the apparent continuity of tissues.

  12. What some hold to be proofs of contagion from person to person, others are ready to account for by the subjection of a number of persons or of a whole community to either a common local or a widespread migrating (epidemic) influence.

  13. There is a widespread popular prejudice, especially notable in the southern part of the United States, that drinking milk occasions attacks of the endemic fevers.

  14. There are several radical defects in water-closets, which are so widespread and which have become so familiar to the world at large as to attract less attention than they deserve.

  15. The periosteum becomes inflamed; a widespread suppurative periostitis is the result; necrosis of the bone from insufficient nutrition follows, while mechanical pressure on the pus aids in its absorption.

  16. Most observers have been struck with the comparative immunity of the kidneys from serious disturbance in a disease presenting such complicated morbid processes and widespread lesions as relapsing fever.

  17. Apart from the nosocomial malaria of hospitals, there is reason to believe in the influence at times of certain general widespread atmospheric {1016} states which affect the entire community.

  18. It is difficult to estimate or imagine the part played by this widespread malady on conditions of life and civilization within the tropics.

  19. Sometimes they take the shape of statements by irresponsible investigators of a sensational habit of mind, incapable of observing or repeating with accuracy what they see, and desirous of obtaining notoriety by widespread slander.

  20. There is not the shadow or the trace of any widespread destruction of the Roman towns in Britain.

  21. Meanwhile a widespread spirit of dissatisfaction with the new raj was daily growing, and on every hand in the bazaars mutterings of trouble began to be heard.

  22. Next day I sent round word that all the villagers were to come to the usual place of public gathering, the widespread pipul tree.

  23. The inevitable results were for him the premature loss of health and strength, and for his people misrule, extortion and widespread unhappiness.

  24. The advance of Lord Roberts was made, as his wont is, with two widespread wings, and a central body to connect them.

  25. It is not clear why the imperial authorities should desire to hold this place, since it has no natural advantages to help the defence, but lies exposed in a widespread plain.

  26. There was a vague but widespread feeling that perhaps the capitalists were engineering the situation for their own ends.

  27. It was the moment when tension with France over the Orsini conspiracy had caused a widespread anticipation of war between that country and England, and had called the Volunteer force into existence to repel invasion.

  28. There were widespread dissension and mutual suspicion among the allies.

  29. Ultimately, of course, the stories must go back to a common source; but the Cerf au pied blanc presents the adventure in so general a form, that one can hardly connect it with any special variant of this very widespread folk-tale.

  30. The excited conduct of the Christians of Cordova had been followed by a still more dangerous and widespread rebellion in the provinces.

  31. The San Min Chu I failed to cause widespread political ecstasy; it succeeded in bringing direction and sanity, after a limited fashion.

  32. Even the efforts of the National Government at Nanking to make a truce with the Japanese in order to continue the drive against the Communists failed to still the widespread clamor for unification.

  33. The physical isolation of most of the emperors prevented them from playing this role with widespread effectiveness, but it was a part of their function.

  34. On the other hand, it is equally certain that Wycliffe gave a voice to feelings widespread and deeply rooted in the country.

  35. Perhaps the most widespread and most natural of all country sports was that of poaching.

  36. Queen Isabella had good reason to fear the vengeance of the Spanish mob, for she had long been unpopular, an object of widespread hatred.

  37. There was also the widespread feeling that Sir Charles Dilke's admission to the Cabinet was overdue, and men guessed rightly at the cause of the delay.

  38. And this virtue on the part of nations which have been misled was never so widespread or so real as now.

  39. The long peace from external foes which the Church had enjoyed was the occasion of a relaxation of discipline, and of a widespread indifference to the full observance of religious duties.

  40. As time proceeded there was a widespread desire for a stricter rule among the monks, and reforms of the Benedictine rule were instituted at Cluni (A.

  41. Three years later the citizens were in great terror on account of a widespread report that the French King was about to invade England.

  42. The notion that orthodoxy is Christianity, that a man who does not contradict the teaching of the New Testament is thereby a Christian, is a very old and very perilous and very widespread one.

  43. What about the widespread mistake that religion prohibits wished-for things and enforces unwelcome duties?

  44. Meissner was led to conclude that copper is widespread in the vegetable kingdom, but that it exists in such minute traces that its determination in plants is exceedingly difficult.

  45. From the foregoing results it is evident that boron is very widespread in the vegetable kingdom, entering into the composition of many plants in all the great classes.

  46. In the following passages we have the combined Finnish version of the widespread cosmogonical myths of the Divine Spirit brooding over the waters of Chaos; and the Mundane Egg.

  47. The widespread calamity, which smote with its cruelest force the beautiful city of Dayton, is one of those for which no personal responsibility can be placed.

  48. Aside from the perpetual protection against flood, which he believes his plan would give to settlers in low regions, there are widespread districts along the Mississippi and many other rivers that would be thrown open to settlement.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widespread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; ample; broad; broadcast; capacious; commodious; conventional; current; customary; deep; deltoid; diffuse; discrete; dispersed; disseminated; dissipated; distributed; epidemic; established; everyday; expansive; extended; extensive; familiar; flaring; full; general; indiscriminate; infinite; liberal; normal; open; ordinary; outstretched; pervasive; popular; prescribed; prescriptive; prevailing; prevalent; public; rampant; received; regnant; regular; regulation; rife; roomy; ruling; scattered; spacious; sparse; splay; sporadic; sprawling; spread; standard; stock; straggling; sweeping; traditional; universal; usual; vast; voluminous; wholesale; wide; widespread; wonted