wide-stretching

Example Sentences

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Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old house stood out boldly on the hillside, while the wide-stretching park-lands were plainly to be seen.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

There was a strange mushroom look about them; low walls of muck-daubed logs supported wide-stretching roofs of reeds, which, in their turn, supported a thick covering of soot-begrimed snow.

From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell

You see yonder gulf," said he, "and the wide-stretching blue plains beyond.

From Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 by Hale, Edward Everett

A narrow space on the right-hand side of the channel was left clear for steam-boats, but the rest of the river was covered with the wide-stretching nets.

From Tales of the Fish Patrol by Varian, George