wide-stretching
Example Sentences
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Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon a barren, wide-stretching tableland stood a cluster of adobe huts.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn
The slopes of the Armenian highlands are clothed with fine forests, and the vine is grown at their base, while on the wide-stretching steppes the Turko-Tatars pasture cattle, horses and sheep.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra!
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
His father's ambition for him was that he should be a great conqueror, that he should lead his troops against the neighbouring kings and overcome them, and in time make for himself a wide-stretching empire.
From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)
