breadth
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"The same is true of BBC Radio Wales, with, as we understand it, an equally significant reduction in the number of feature programmes, which will compromise the breadth of the programme offer."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
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
In market parlance that’s known as good breadth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 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
His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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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I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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
If there hadn't been close on to two full breadths in each of his legs, I never could have got it out.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
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