How to use "wide" in a sentence

To free my hand, I must remove a piece of rock over fifteen centimetres wide and seven centimetres deep

Inside it, I saw an oyster over six feet wide

The Mad Hatter opened his eyes very wide, but he said nothing

The child's eyes were as wide and blue as her mother's

But, as she held the old man's hand, she gazed wide-eyed at the sky

The desk clerk showed him into the police chief's office, where a tall man with a wide face and a thin, tight mouth was trying to keep warm next to a tire.

He took the thirty francs and, helping Valjean to lift Marius on to his shoulders, he put the key in the lock and opened the gate just wide enough for Valjean to pass through

'What proof do you have?' Marius said, wide-eyed with disbelief.

"And they actually pay you?" Niki's eyes were wide.

Apat's eyes grew wide as saucers

Cham's eyes grew wide

Cham's eyes grew wide with disbelief

The gates were wide open for us

Maxim drove up to the wide stone steps and stopped the car in front of them

At the top of the steps, a big door stood wide open

We went together up the wide stone steps

Mrs Danvers was standing at the top of the wide flight of stairs

She led me along a wide passage

We passed through doors and up and down wide stairs

This room led into a large, light bedroom with wide windows

But I went on and came to a wide staircase

The raincoat, too wide, too long for me, must have been hers too

She was wide-awake, but she had to get some sleep

The room stepped down toward the stage in alternating wide and narrow galleries

Each narrow gallery consisted of a three-foot-wide aisle with a low railing on one side and a curving row of raised, plushly padded booths on the other side

Perhaps some would say that her brow was too wide

Others might say that her mouth was too wide, her chin too pointed

Vivienne backed into the wall, eyes wide, hands fisted at her sides.

Tina pressed through the milling onlookers who filled the wide center aisle, and she located Michael almost at once

From there they were going to hike for three days with snowshoes and backpacks, making a wide circle around the bus, coming back to it at the end of the week.

There were no guardrails in the wilderness, no wide shoulders at the roadside with gentle slopes beyond

"Well, the person who's harassing you has a melodramatic streak a mile wide."

Danny survived the accident, but they couldn't let him come home because he'd tell everyone the government was responsible for the deaths of the others, and that would blow their secret military installation wide open."

The window was constructed like a sandwich: Two one-inch-thick panes of shatterproof glass surrounded an inch-wide space filled with an inert gas

The hole in the wall was not wide enough for him to step through, into her passageway; he could only thrust one arm at her, and his long, bony fingers were an inch or two short of her

It was little more than one lane wide, and the trees formed a tunnel around it, so that after fifty or sixty feet, it disappeared into premature night

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

She gave me a wide smile

Another pause, and then he shouted, 'The smoke of her burning goes up for ever and ever!' His eyes were wide and he pointed a thin finger in the direction of Weybridge.

It stretched far and wide and I hesitated on the edge of that large open space

It was a wide open field

She loves it here, with the wide sandy beach and the old sea

Connie just sits there with her mouth open that wide...