wider

[US]/waidə/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.broad; having a large extent from side to side

Example Sentences

the wider political conjuncture.

wider questions remain unaddressed.

a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience.

the region is expendable in the wider context of national politics.

The current survey will have a wider geographic spread.

these measures are merely tinkering at the edges of a wider issue.

it is necessary to situate these ideas in the wider context of the class structure.

the relative unimportance of wider kin ties in British culture.

Das wider Willen uns zum Strudel zieht.

The manufacturers appear to have underbid the contracts by a wider margin than usual.

We were able to convince the students of the need for wider reading.

the wider issues were to show that politicians had blown it .

scholarship is conveyed to a wider audience than under the old dispensation.

Unless we spread our net a bit wider, this company will never get enough business.

Compared to the monofocal intraocular lens, the multifocal lens can provide a wider range for depth of focus.

a remote village, whence little news reached the wider world.

The acidophil erythroblast and erythrocyte had more hemoglobin in the euchromatin areas of nuclei, less nuclear pores, and wider perinuclear space than polychromatophil erythroblast.

Its chest is wider than the abdomen, and the abdomen gradually narrows from the base to the end.Its nymphae is identical to adult in shape, but smaller in size, and infant nymphae has no scales.

Real-world Examples

4 times wider than Earth is Neptune, a cold blue gas giant 49,500 km wide.

Source: Listening Digest

Schubert says international collaboration is a way to spread ideas in wider and wider circles.

Source: CET-6 Listening Past Exam Questions (with Translations)

The plants also had heavier and wider clusters of leaves after 24 days of growth.

Source: Selected English short passages

" Is he tame? " asked the woman, opening the door a little wider.

Source: The Wizard of Oz (Simplified Version)

Just so you know, a human hair is 100 times wider than that!

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide.

Source: Drama: Alice in Wonderland

Does this case have any wider implications?

Source: BBC Listening Compilation February 2017

But engaging the wider world economy can help.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

The valley had a wide flat floor.

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

You've become the size of a molecule, just under two nanometers wide.

Source: Kurzgesagt science animation

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