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
About five miles from the city lay, in the midst of a wood--a former hunting castle of the prince--a wide-stretching building.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
To get the full effect of the forest one must be able to behold wide-stretching vistas, and that had been impossible heretofore because of the brush thickets.
From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison
The slopes of the Armenian highlands are clothed with fine forests, and the vine is grown at their base, while on the wide-stretching steppes the Turko-Tatars pasture cattle, horses and sheep.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
And from all this wide-stretching housing-place of a vast population, there rose into my ears a continuous, dull, peculiar sound, as of the magnified stertorous breathing of a hived and stifled humanity.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
