breadth

John and Laura Overdeck’s divorce is giving the world a peek into the lives of the ultrarich, and the breadth of the onetime couple’s enormous wealth at stake in a New Jersey courthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Wilson’s catalog showcased the full breadth of her native Mississippi’s musical heritage, drawing primarily from jazz but spanning every foundational American genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

This year has seen a bunch of “divergence days” in which the “index does one thing but then breadth does the opposite,” he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

The unresolved trade issues between the two sides, a list that is almost comical in both its breadth and specificity, suggests why Ford has so much pull.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

The room was so full of books there wasn’t more than a palm’s breadth of wall visible in the entire room.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.

From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg

No girl could help grasping at it eagerly, and while Blanche studied the part, she, the mother, would baste up some breadths of satin she had by her into a court dress.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris