1. widening

noun. ['ˈwaɪdənɪŋ'] the act of making something wider.

Rhymes with Widening

• abandoning
• abstaining
• abstaining
• adjoining
• adjourning
• adorning
• affining
• airconditioning
• aligning
• amounting
• apportioning
• ascertaining
• assigning
• attaining
• auctioning
• auditioning
• awakening
• awning
• banning
• beginning

Sentences with widening

1. Noun, singular or mass
For instance, a cap-sleeve style that brushes your shoulders has a subtle widening effect.

2. Verb, gerund or present participle
Insert a pointed trowel into the crack and scrape downward to remove more loose pieces without widening the crack.

Quotes about widening

1. I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

2. Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
- James Wolcott

3. Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.
- W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

2. widening

noun. ['ˈwaɪdənɪŋ'] a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park.

3. widening

noun. ['ˈwaɪdənɪŋ'] an increase in width.