breadth
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The heat has swept the length and breadth of the UK from the south of England to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
You want an adviser who has the financial aspirations of Warren Buffett — not the literary breadth of Ernest Hemingway.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
That breadth is particularly notable given how closely Graham became associated with Trump during the president’s two terms in office.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
It seems daunting dialing in that depth and breadth within “The Pitt’s” hour-by-hour format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
He tabulated the chest breadth and height of 5,738 soldiers to demonstrate that chest size and height were distributed along smooth, continuous, bell-shaped curves.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
John B. Read’s lighting now makes less marvelous effects from the depths and breadths of the Met stage.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2014
Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
They are markedly smaller in every measurement taken, except zygomatic and mastoidal breadths, and extension of premaxillae posterior to nasals.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
At concerts, many dresses are seen either with flounces or apron-shaped fronts; that is to say, the front breadth has a much richer pattern, and different from the other breadths of the skirt.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The hills again opened, and there were flourishing breadths of turnips, and people digging potatoes, an article of food and export which was introduced by the missionaries forty years ago.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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