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great lengths

adverb as in far and wide

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Example Sentences

CIA goes to great lengths to understand the reliability and accuracy of every source.

Because of those economic reasons, Russian leadership is willing to go to great lengths to protect its interests in the region.

These days it appears as if women will go to great lengths to achieve that 36-24-36 measurement.

White folks went to great lengths in the last weeks to denounce the overt racism of figures like Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling.

But the Sarkozys are going to great lengths to ensure that no other content from the transcripts is leaked to the public.

It has taken me to great lengths—I see it now; it has made burdens where there needn't have been any.

I wanted to be well thought of by them, and would go to great lengths to gain their affection.

We very soon had an instance of the great lengths to which this desire for isolation would carry them.

But even the law allows the man to go great lengths in his lords defence.

If we were to go to Ireland, we might ride for miles and see the woven linen cloth spread on the grass in great lengths.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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