breadth
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Still, petite SunMi Park, beaming with physical confidence and musical sensibility, gave this ballet a stirring impact, smoothly supported by Calvin Royal III, whose long, wing-like arms brought special breadth to framing his partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"The Commonwealth has scale and breadth, but is also small enough for leaders to know each other and co-operate together."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
There has been an outpouring of messages from politicians and party leaders across the breadth of the political spectrum.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The gap in earnings revision breadth between high- and low-quality has expanded to 10%, the second-widest since 2010.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
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But time went on and on, for seven lengths and seven breadths, and yet he did not come back.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen
Skull: Long and slender; rostrum long and narrow; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths slight; palatal pits deep; upper incisors narrow; basioccipital wide.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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
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