Widened Sentence Examples

His amber eyes widened and darkened.

His eyes widened, and he shifted again.

He widened his eyes then narrowed them in an attempt to focus.

His eyes widened, and the two smallest boys looked at each other.

Then her eyes widened as she blushed.

Damian's smile widened, and Darian could see how touched his little brother was at the words.

Her eyes widened and her chest moved up and down faster as her breath quickened.

Evelyn's eyes widened, and she looked at Kiera again, this time in anger and concern.

Her eyes widened with the realization that he wrote this beautiful composition for her.

The loose soil on the banks of the river is every year carried away in great masses, and the channel has so widened as to render the recurrence of an overflow unlikely.

A serious breach with Russia followed, which was widened by the part which the prince subsequently played in encouraging the national aspirations of the Bulgarians.

The breach between Paoli and the Bonapartes now rapidly widened, the latter having now definitely espoused the cause of the French republic, while Paoli, especially after the execution of Louis XVI., repudiated all thought of political connexion with the regicides.

Her smile widened, and she walked away into the living room.

Eyes widened when she learned someone had pilfered the small finger bone from Cynthia's bureau and she shivered when told the Deans had been followed into the mine.

Hannah's eyes widened, and she rose, angling her past the butler and a maid dusting a painting to the second floor.

Her eyes widened, then ran over him as if she were appraising a sinful dessert, ready to devour it.

The woman's eyes widened.

The breach quickly widened.

The breach between the queen's party and Albany's had widened, and the queen's advisers had begun an intrigue with England, to the end that the royal widow and her young son should be removed to Henry's court.

Soon after his time, however, this conception was clearly established, and with so large a generalization the mental horizon was widened to conceive of a geography which was a science.

The Sadducean nobility continued in power under his brother and successor Alexander Jannaeus (103-78); and the breach between the king and the mass of the people widened.

Within two years the whole area, solidly rebuilt and with widened and straightened streets, showed no traces of the ruin except an appearance superior in all respects to that presented before the fire.

This split, first apparent in the Congress of 1903, gradually widened.

Since then the canal has been widened and deepened, and the naval port at Sidi Abdallah created.

From henceforth the military and civil authorities, as represented by Kossuth and Gdrgei, were hopelessly out of sympathy with each other, and the breach widened till all effective co-operation became impossible.

Later investigations by Fraunhofer, Airy and others have greatly widened the field, and under the head of " diffraction " are now usually treated all the effects dependent upon the limitation of a beam of light, as well as those which arise from irregularities of any kind at surfaces through which it is transmitted, or at which it is reflected.

The calendars at first included only martyrs, but their scope was gradually widened.

Grants of land of the Merovingian kings had carried with them ownership and not a limited right, and the king's patrocinium had not widened in extent in the direction of the later vassal relation.

Only an arm of the river, the Danube Canal, so called because it was - regulated and widened in 1598, passes through the city, dividing it into two unequal parts.

Supplementary to the preceding was the Nova litteraria Germaniae collecta Hamburgi (1703-1709), which from 1707 widened its field of view to the whole of Europe.

The streets were formerly narrow and irregular, but the principal thoroughfares have been widened under the Street Improvement Act of 1888.

In the centre, however, the canal is widened to 147 ft.

The Georgentor has been widened, and through it, and beneath the royal apartments, vehicular traffic from the centre of the town is directed to the Augustusbriicke.

Direct application into the widened wound of calcium hypochlorite, i.e.

Vigorous cauterization with nitrate of silver, driving the stick into the widened wound, is also good, and it is a remedy which one can carry in the pocket.

Four bridges cross the Lagan; the Queen's Bridge (1844, widened in 1886) is the finest, while the Albert Bridge (1889) replaces a former one which collapsed.

The basis of taxation was widened, sinecures abolished, schools opened in the country districts, legal procedure simplified, and Police established on an English footing.

Surrounded by a massive Venetian wall, it forms a closely built, irregular and overcrowded town, though of late years a few of its streets have been widened.

The bees which make up this group agree with the Sphecoidea in the short pronotum, but may be distinguished from all other Hymenoptera by the widened first tarsal segment and the plumose hairs on head and body.

The earliest known document proceeding from the Waldensians is an account of a conference held at Bergamo in 1218 between the Ultramontane and the Lombard divisions, in which the Lombards showed a greater opposition to the recognized priesthood than did their northern brethren.2 As these opinions became more pronounced persecution became more severe, and the breach between the Waldenses and the church widened.

In 1898 also the municipal franchise, hitherto confined to ratepayers, was greatly widened; in 1900 the English system of compensation to workmen for accidents suffered in their trade was adopted with some changes, one of the chief being that contested claims are adjudicated upon cheaply and expeditiously by the same arbitration court that decides industrial disputes.

In the late middle ages the stole was usually of uniform breadth; but from the 16th century onwards the ends again began to be widened, until in the 18th century we have the hideous form with large shovelshaped ends.

The struggle widened as Geneva became a pawn in the great attempt of the duke of Savoy to bring back his subjects to the old faith, his efforts being seconded by Francois de Sales, the "apostle of the Chablais."

The harmonious relations which subsisted between the two branches of the Wettins were disturbed by the interference of Maurice in Cleves, a proceeding distasteful to the Saxon elector, John Frederick; and a dispute over the bishopric of Meissen having widened the breach, war was only averted by the mediation of Philip of Hesse and Luther.

The range of studies was widened, however, at Rugby in 1828-1842 by Thomas Arnold, whose interest in ancient history and geography, as a necessary part of classical learning, is attested by his edition of Thucydides; while his influence was still further extended when those who had been trained in his traditions became head masters of other schools.

Here the widened use of "church" noticed above has been especially marked.

In 1901 this law was widened to include the Revised English Version of 1881-1885.

At the same time, with the rise of ideas as to a future life and spiritual beings, this field of mythology is immensely widened, though it cannot be said that a rich mythology is necessarily genetically associated with or combined with belief in many spiritual beings.

In this central region, however, it is only by way of exception that the cirques were so far enlarged by retrogressive glacial erosion as to sharpen the preglacial dome-like summits into acute peaks; and in no case did glacial action here extend down to the plains at the eastern base of the mountains; but the widened, trough-like glaciated valleys frequently descend to the level of the elevated intermont basins, where moraines were deployed forward on the basin floor.

Some of the navigable canals which connected the harbour with the interior of the city have been either modified or filled up. Several streets have been widened, and a road along the shore has been transformed into a fine and shady promenade.

He concludes an interesting and important investigation by' giving reasons for believing that the centre of a widened line radiates with smaller energy than the adjacent parts.

Hence the apparent reversals so frequently observed in the centre of a widened line may not be reversals at all but due to a reduction in luminosity.

The river is crossed by St John's Bridge of nine arches, completed in 1772 from the designs of John Smeaton and widened a century later; by Victoria Bridge, a modern structure connecting South Street with Dundee Road; and farther south (at the end of Tay Street) by a footway alongside of the viaduct belonging to the Caledonian railway.

The breach with Innocent soon widened, and in violation of the treaty made with the pope Otto attempted to recover for the Empire all the property which Innocent had annexed to the Church, and rewarded his supporters with large estates in the disputed territories.

Sometimes the Ressurrection is narrowed down to the resurrection of the righteous, at others widened out to the resurrection of all mankind for the last judgment.

In 1239 Pope Gregory joined the cities and the struggle widened out into the larger one of the Empire and the Papacy.

With this view he entered into secret negotiations for a French alliance g which, as far as can be gathered from extant records, had for its objects the conquest and partition by the United allies of the Belgic provinces, and joint action in was widened.

But in spite of these imposing displays of power the princes looked with suspicion upon an emperor who was almost a stranger to their country and who was believed to be a renegade from their faith, and soon after Fredericks return to Italy the gulf between him and his German subjects was widened by his indifference to a great danger which threatened them.

Every day the rift between the dominant radical element in the Hungarian parliament and imperial court was widened.

Of these the most notable was the construction (1898-1902) of the Assuan dam, which by bringing more land under cultivation permanently increased the resources of the country and widened the area of taxation.

This increase of villenage morally depressed the peasantry, and widened still further the breach between the yeomanry and the gentry.

Flood plains may be the result of planation, with aggradation, that is, they may be due to a graded river working in meanders from side to side, widening its valley by this process and covering the widened valley with sediment.

A dispute over money left by John Beaufort, marquess of Dorset, caused or widened a breach in the royal family which reached a climax in 1411.

Afterwards the pathways of the streams would be gradually deepened and widened into valleys.

Its breadth at Napo is only 120 ft., but at Coca it has widened to 1500 ft., and at its mouth to nearly 1 m.

The Greek and Latin name was first used of the hermits, but was early widened to embrace the coenobites.

Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung became Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre; the novel of purely theatrical interests was widened out to embrace the history of a young man's apprenticeship to life.

Once begun the breach widened, until Luther could contrast "our theology" with what was taught at Erfurt, and by September he began to write against the scholastic theology, to declare that it was Pelagian at heart, that it repudiated the Augustinian doctrines of grace, and neglected to teach the supreme value of that faith "which throws itself upon God."

In 1888 the gates of Wellington dock were widened to admit a larger type of Channel steamers; new coal stores were erected on the Northampton quay; the slipway was lengthened 40 ft., and widened for the reception of vessels up to 800 tons.

If it cannot be said that any of these missions were fruitful in permanent results, at least they introduced the English to a new set of diplomatic relations, and widened the sphere of their influence.

He also widened the gates by which educated natives could enter the service of the company.

Some have devoted themselves to induction from sense and experience and widened logic till it has become a general science of inference and scientific method.

In short, the comprehensive genius of Bacon widened logic into a general science of inference.

That these things only widened the breach between the Church and the outside world was of no account to Pius.

As the breach widened, he even opposed petitions to the king and parliament, on the ground that the claims to taxation and control had been put forward by the ministry on the basis of right, not of expediency, that the ministry could not abandon the claim of right and the colonies could not admit it, and that petitions must be, as they already had been, rejected.

The eyebrows are widened and painted till they appear to meet, while sham moles or stars are painted on the chin and cheek; even spangles are stuck at times on the chin and forehead.

But lately this narrow range of dramatic subjects has been considerably widened, Biblical stories and even Christian legends have been brought upon the Persian stage; and there is a fair prospect of a further development of this most interesting and important movement.

His scheme was forthwith immensely widened.

Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.) widened the scope of Roman history so as to include that of the chief Italian cities, and made the first serious attempt to settle the chronology.

As a further advance, the pit becomes widened out into a cup, as in the lateral ocelli of Charybdaea.

The septal ostia become widened and the gastral cavity flattened, whereby the taeniolae become comparatively shallow columns, similar to the septal nodes or cathammata of other forms.'

Their "saying" (logos) was gathered mostly from contemporaries; and upon the basis of a widened experience they became critics of their traditions.

The mole which he constructed has been widened by deposits of sand, so that the ancient island is now connected with the mainland by a tongue of land a quarter of a mile broad.

On the one hand, it widened his sympathies, gave him confidence in himself and supplied him with many poetical themes; on the other, it traditionalized his mind, coloured for him the pure light of nature and rendered him in some measure unfit to feel or express the spirit of American nature and life.

As this channel is gradually widened the old bed of the river is left dry.

Having thus determined the outer profile under the conditions hitherto assumed, it must be similarly ascertained that the water face is everywhere cap able of resisting the vertical pressure of the masonry when the reservoir is empty, and the base of each compartment must be widened if necessary in that direction also.

It was nearly all rebuilt in 1718-1723, and in 1842 was widened from 142 to 26 ft.

His reputation soon widened, and in 1754 he became professor of logic, metaphysics and Greek in the university of Reggio, and in 1760 was translated to Modena, where he continued to teach with great assiduity and success, but devoted his whole leisure to natural science.

The conservative and timid Leibnitz was beaten on the battlefield of politics and public law, and the aggressive spirit of Pufendorf aggravated yet more the dispute, and so widened the division.

The streets have been widened and named.

Even when the notion of " good performance of function " was thus widened, and when it had further taken in the pleasure that is inseparably connected with such functioning, it did not yet correspond to the whole of what a Greek commonly understood as " human well-being."

But metaphysical systems of ethics are no novelty even in England, and, while the increased interest in ultimate issues of philosophy has enormously deepened and widened men's appreciation of moral problems and the issues involved in conduct, the actual advance in ethical theory produced by such speculations has been comparatively slight.

In China, Egypt and Babylonia, strength and continuity were lent to this native tendency by the influence of a centralized authority; considerable proficiency was attained in the arts of observation; and from millennial stores of accumulated data, empirical rules were deduced by which the scope of prediction was widened and its accuracy enhanced.

Cavalieri's " indivisibles " into the infinitesimal calculus, all accomplished during the 17th century, immeasurably widened the scope of exact astronomy.

He could never co-operate with the Roman Catholic confederacy at Kilkenny, which was under old English influence, and by throwing in his lot with the Celts only widened the gulf between the two sections.

At the moment when it seemed as if everything had been made that could be made out of the fragments of Aristotle, and the compilations of Capella, Cassiodorus and others, and when mysticism and scepticism seemed the only resources left for the mind, the horizon of knowledge was suddenly widened by the acquisition of a complete Aristotle.

This indecisive attitude did not last long, and the split in the party rapidly widened.

The Trade Marks Act 1994 has widened the ambit of protection significantly.

They are being widened, with bigger berms, with alternative lines incorporating jumps and other features on to them.

Anne could not forgive this very public humiliation and it widened the breech between them into a gaping chasm.

The discussion widened to cover other issues as well, such as the media propaganda and the recent grave desecration.

The front garden includes a widened driveway providing access to the garage.

The eyebrow was elevated, The palpebral fissure was widened on the affected.

The pay gap has widened in favor of the public sector worker by almost £ 1 an hour.

Migrants had also widened the horizons of domestic workers by helping them understand more about other cultures.

To create the mooring lay-by, the channel would be widened on the offside of the canal, the footpath diverted and hedge replanted.

Solving the inability Most new file systems have widened their number of bits for some fields, in order to overcome previous limitations.

The scheme may also include widened pavements and improved pedestrian crossing facilities between the harbor and the town side.

Hill never recanted his Marxism, but the writings of his later years widened considerably beyond their original focus on the English Revolution.

The remit has now been widened to all sources of funding, and provides a useful resource to the voluntary and community sectors.

The existing road alongside the bowling green which is used by vehicles leaving the park, will now be widened and made two-way.

Dedicated and distinguished service was rendered by the ATS during the war in all spheres and in all activities whose scopes were gradually widened.

When she spotted Carmen, her eyes widened, but she kept walking.

They widened as he recognized who was at his door.

Katie's eyes widened in surprise as she recognized a brand of moisturizer that cost a few hundred dollars.

The tunnel widened, and his pace slowed as he saw another tunnel intersect it.

He managed to get a slow-moving truck between them on a winding road and nearly lost them until the road widened near Scranton.

A hopeless antagonism arose between them, which was widened by Enfantin's announcement of his theory of the relation of man and woman, which would substitute for the "tyranny of marriage" a system of "free love."

The streets of the town were widened and improved in 1869.

Further, it is subsequently found that certain classes of temple servants, the singers and porters, who had once been outside the Levitical gilds, became absorbed as the term "Levite" was widened, and this change is formally expressed by the genealogies which ascribe to Levi, the common "ancestor" of them all, the singers and even certain families whose heathenish and foreign names show that they were once merely servants of the temple.3 2.

So the revolt was put down, but the excessive zeal of the soldiers and Pilate's obstinate adherence to his policy widened the breach between Rome and the stricter Jews.

The marriage negotiations of1809-1810had somewhat offended the emperor Alexander; his resentment increased when, at the close of 1810, Napoleon dethroned the duke of Oldenburg, brother-inlaw of the tsar; and the breach in the Franco-Russian alliance widened when the French emperor refused to award fit compensation to the duke or to give to the Russian government an assurance that the kingdom of Poland would never be reconstituted.

Regular river navigation begins only at Abrantes, a few miles below which the Tagus is greatly widened by receiving on its right bank the impetuous Zezere from the Serra da Estrella.

This breach was widened when Flacius began to make personal attacks on Augustus, to prophesy his speedy downfall, and to incite Duke John Frederick to make an effort to recover his rightful position.

If now we assume the water to have a depth d above the base, the total water pressure represented by the triangle kbh will have its centre at d/3 from the base, and by the parallelogram of forces, assuming the density of the masonry to be 2.5, we find that the centre of pressure upon the base bc is shifted from the centre of the base to a point i nearer to the outer toe c, and adopting our assumption of uniformly varying intensity of stress, the rectangular diagram of pressures will thus be distorted from the figure bfgc to the figure of equal area bjlc, having its centre o vertically under the point at which the resultant of all the forces cuts the base bc. For any lower level the same treatment may, step by step, be adopted, until the maximum intensity of pressure cl exceeds the assumed permissible maximum, or the centre of pressure reaches an assigned distance from the outer toe c, when the base must be widened until the maximum intensity of pressure or the centre of pressure, as the case may be, is brought within the prescribed limit.

Natasha looked at him, and by way of answer to his words her eyes widened and lit up.

The center was where the main turnpike road widened out to form Edmonton Green.

In 1860 the nave was widened on the north side, swallowing up a transept.

The gap between our richest and poorest neighborhoods has widened dramatically.

However the demand for our services has widened significantly.

In 2003 it was widened to encompass unusual, complex or innovatory studies.

The remit of the teams was also widened to include greater emphasis on the rehabilitation element.

He suggested that the steering group could be widened to incorporate other Councilors.

Part of the flat surface of this had been widened to take punched decoration in the form of interlocking arcs in La Tene style.

The attitudinal gap among ability levels widened with age, tho for academic reading attitude the negative trend was similar regardless of ability.

It is slightly tapered in order to lift and separate the lashes, which creates a more natural look, and also slightly widened in one section to amplify the lashes and create a fuller look.

The resort has widened the black diamond Susquehanna trail.

In 2005, Torrid stores widened their merchandise selection to include other fashion viewpoints.

To accommodate the extra karts, each of the tracks has been slightly widened.

During surgery, the pulmonary valve is widened, the ventricular septal defect is closed, and any interim correction is removed.

The ends of the long bones of the arms and legs appear widened and thickened (clubbed).

As the definition of dating has expanded, the opportunities for alternative dating have widened.

In 1969, John Spencer published Limbo of the Lost where he discussed this area of ocean, but he widened the area of mystery both West and North.

By necessity, it might be widened to allow for weight gain - a woman might give birth more than ten times throughout her married life - but it still offered some shape and support.

The best emoticons are the ones that intuitively trigger the image going along with the emotion - the smile, the frown, the pursed lips, the widened eyes.

For local services where stoppages are frequent the demand is for engines capable of quickly ' At the beginning of 1908 the Great Western's loading gauge on its main lines was widened to 9 ft.

There was a light step behind her, and then Allen's eyes widened as his attention shifted to a point behind her.

During 1803-4 the breach between the two rivals widened, because Napoleon became more and more aggressive and unceremonious in Italy and Germany.

It was a kind of blind-alley, the end of which widened into a small, neat courtyard.

The area of Aegean intercourse has widened and become more busy.

One of the great mistakes made by the Franks was the breach of the alliance in 1147 - a breach which was widened by the attack directed against Damascus during the Second Crusade; and the conquest of Damascus by Nureddin in 1154 was ultimately fatal to the Latin kingdom, removing as it did the one possible ally of the Franks, and opening the way to Egypt for the atabegs of Mosul.

During the 19th century the interests of Friends became widened and they are no longer a close community.

Her eyes widened as she noticed the bandaged foot.

All that now lies between that point and the modern Ras et-Tin quarter is built on the silt which gradually widened and obliterated this mole.