Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Large; extensive.
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Examples
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She felt his hands going for her throat, saw his eyes staring down at her, spittle at the corners of his wide-stretched mouth.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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She felt his hands going for her throat, saw his eyes staring down at her, spittle at the corners of his wide-stretched mouth.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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She felt his hands going for her throat, saw his eyes staring down at her, spittle at the corners of his wide-stretched mouth.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Companions; Some had concealed themselves beneath a Table, on which the remnants of a feast were visible; While Others with gaping mouths and eyes wide-stretched pointed to a Figure, supposed to have created this disturbance.
The Monk 2004
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The ground on which the battle was fought, was a level plain — so level, that from the tumuli you saw the waving line of mountains on the wide-stretched horizon; yet the intervening space was unvaried by the least irregularity, save such undulations as resembled the waves of the sea.
The Last Man 2003
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Voracious sea birds circled the remains of meals consumed by sleek predators, and schools of krill swam from the wide-stretched jaws of leviathans.
Morgawr Brooks, Terry 2002
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Voracious sea birds circled the remains of meals consumed by sleek predators, and schools of krill swam from the wide-stretched jaws of leviathans.
Morgawr BROOKS, Terry 2002
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The mouth in some cases is wide-stretched, as it is with some viviparous quadrupeds ....
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Voracious sea birds circled the remains of meals consumed by sleek predators, and schools of krill swam from the wide-stretched jaws of leviathans.
Morgawr Brooks, Terry 2002
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As we scrunched to a halt on Bon-Bon's gravel, Marigold came with wide-stretched arms out of the front door to greet us.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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