Definition: 1. Become broader or wider or more extensive. 2. Make (clothes) larger. 3. Make wider. 4. Extend in scope or range or area.
Use 'widen' in a sentence:
1. The search for my brother widened.
2. His eyes widened as he spoke the words.
3. The real test will come when spreads start to widen again.
4. In the past, there was often an automatic reaction to increased traffic: just widen the roads, says Mark Poch, the Bellevue Transportation Department's traffic engineering manager.
5. He has widened his acquaintance with literature.
6. Meg's eyes widened in admiration.
7. The first is to identify bottlenecks and to widen them.
8. Analysis and prevention of pavement longitudinal cracking on widen old road.
9. Malone's eyes widened. 'You're having me on, Liam.'
10. Finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.
11. Newspapers enjoyed a widening circle of readers.
12. The gap between the cost of building a phone and its price in the shops should widen further as previously components are packed onto a single main microchip.
13. The gaps between strong and weak institutions will widen further.
14. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
15. During the Second World War, industrial wage differentials in Britain widened.
16. The tunnels have been widened and deepened.
17. They decided to widen out the river to avoid the flooding.
18. In early March spreads began to widen alarmingly on all manner of debt.
19. As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.
20. As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester — and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.
21. I know some teachers do use photocopied newspaper articles sometimes, as their students are eager to learn more to widen their views.
22. But some of his attempts to widen the gene pool have proved disastrous.
23. Widen one's field of vision.
24. It is deep enough. She begins to widen, lengthen and shape the trench.
25. In 2014 the federal tax rate would fall, but the tax base would widen.
26. I ask and their eyes widen.
27. Mr Dobson promised to widen the organisation's scope of activity.
28. His eyes widen as he concentrates.
29. Even the rigorous Finns and Dutch have seen bond spreads widen.
30. This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen".
31. They are trying to widen the discussion to include environmental issues.
32. And there are pressures to widen the inner circle.
33. The track widened as it met the road.
34. As the Kennedy Centre's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
35. Observation and analyzes about sedimentation of widen old road testing section.
36. He had an operation last year to widen a heart artery.
37. His mouth became dry, his eyes widened, and he began to tremble all over.
38. U.S. prosecutors have widened a securities-fraud investigation.
39. They widen the gap between privileged and disadvantaged students.
40. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
41. Mr. Dobson promised to widen the organization's scope of activity.
42. Many students register for these courses to widen skills for use in their current job.
43. The US trade deficit widened to$ 7.59 billion in November.
44. Increased traffic necessitated widening the road.
45. While enriching their imagination, books widen their outlook, develop a fact-finding attitude and train them to use leisure properly.
46. They may have to widen the road to cope with the increase in traffic.
47. The legislation will be widened to include all firearms.
48. Her eyes widened in surprise.
49. We plan to widen the scope of our existing activities by offering more language courses.
50. The gap between the best and poorest childcare provision in the European Union has widened.
51. The country's trade surplus widened to 16.5 billion dollars.
52. America's trade gap widened.
53. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic.
54. Here the stream widens into a river.
55. Wage differences in the two areas are widening.
