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breadth

[bredth, bretth, breth] / brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ /




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To LeMaire, the breadth of the list reflects both Brooks’ long view of movie history and the eclecticism of his own work.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Rhys: I might have to, but I worry about the breadth of audience we’d have there.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Some in Labour were unhappy when Lennon didn't make the ballot for this contesting, lamenting a lack of breadth in the contest.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Do you pride yourself on the depth and breadth of your command of the English language?

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

“Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you’ll see the breadth of the country before you reach your final stop.”

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

She threw off the carpet slippers, and reached under the breadths of the silver gray skirt for her new shoes.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

The breadths of satin are put together so that the stripes meet in points at the seams.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Where the bogs are not found there are wide breadths of forests, and very interesting as well as impassable forests they are.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears




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