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"Widespread" in a Sentence (18 examples)
One student says the purge is still going on in China and terror is widespread.
There was widespread panic after the earthquake.
The earthquake caused widespread damage.
The loss of childhood spontaneity has caused widespread concern, as well as calls for review of the nation's educational and social structures.
The widespread application of administrative guidance is considered to be a uniquely Japanese practice in which bureaucrats exert authority, without any legal backing, telling the private sector what to do and what not to do.
The jury's guilty verdict gave rise to widespread debate.
Depression is a period marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices, and wages, etc.
The impression that many German wines are sweet, and don't go well with food, is widespread.
Some translators changed Alice's name to Sonya or Anya, even though Alisa is a widespread Russian name.
Esperanto, with its 130-year history and abundant literature, can be mastered in one tenth of the time required for learning one of the widespread national languages.
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There was widespread support for the proposal.
The storm caused widespread damage.
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic[…] Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches
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