Wide in a sentence as an adjective

One should ban antibiotics for animals world wide.

This advice had wide application beyond YC and beyond "applications.

There is much published study research on how job applicants perform after they are hired in a wide variety of occupations.

There are other countries, like Saudi Arabia or Norway, who will probably be the first to try this on a nation-wide scale before Switzerland.

Or all of the goddamn fixed-width "experiences" that were either too wide for what users wanted their window to be or so narrow that acres of space were wasted.

Wide in a sentence as an adverb

It's a country-wide firewall/proxy that exists due to political reasons and it wouldn't behave any differently if it was implemented in IPv6.

Why would you use a real estate agent trying to pump the price as high as possible, when you can use one who will be paid entirely based on your satisfaction rating?On the other hand, Zillow/Trulia have wider reach.

It's a Khunian revolution out of "the pill and the scalpel" mindset and into a deeper understanding of root causes of wide classes of disease and general unhealthiness in 21st century society.

After some prototyping, I decided to use a 2D camera and deliver the software as an app because I thought wide distribution and ease of use was more important than the fidelity and correctness of the data - ie, the "worse is better" approach.

Behavior genetic studies of whole family lineages, genome-wide association studies, and drug intervention studies have all shown that there are a variety of biological or psychological causes for mood disorders, and not all mood disorders are the same as all other mood disorders.

Wide definitions

adjective

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"

See also: broad

adjective

broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

adjective

(used of eyes) fully open or extended; "stared with wide eyes"

See also: wide-eyed

adjective

very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"

See also: broad spacious

adjective

great in degree; "won by a wide margin"

adjective

having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"

See also: wide-cut full

adjective

not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"

adverb

with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"

adverb

to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"

adverb

far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"

See also: astray

adverb

to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"

See also: widely