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wide-spreading

/wahyd-spred-ing/US // ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd ɪŋ //

广为流传的,广为流传,广为传播的,广为传播

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
    • : affecting or reaching a large area: a wide-spreading infection.

Examples

  • The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.

  • Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.

  • An escort who goes by the name of “Tommy” has experienced a wide variety of female clients.

  • The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.

  • But instead of just quietly releasing a statement through a publicist, she broadcasted her anger far and wide.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.

  • The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.

  • His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.

  • As usual the dinner was recherché, for the Pandemonium chef enjoyed a world-wide reputation.