The phrase "able to widen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the capability or potential to increase the width of something, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The new design is able to widen the scope of our project, allowing for more comprehensive research."
Alternatives: "capable of expanding" or "able to extend".
By moving a newsstand, Bloomingdale was able to widen the lobby.
Item: The Tasmanian tiger may have been able to widen its gape to an astonishing 120 degrees, but this was unlikely to have been "semipermanently" the case.
In District 6, where two progressive candidates, Jane Kim and Debra Walker, battled Theresa Sparks, a moderate, Ms. Kim was able to widen her lead over Ms. Walker through successive rounds of elimination.
The first is the need for engineers to both be aware of and critique their own values and to be able to widen their perspective to that of the 'other' i.e. marginalised and minority groups and the environment.
The deal included the council being able to widen a pavement on a street that goes past the site and the developers paying for forthcoming improvements to the five-way junction that part of the development faces on to.
If Trump refuses to sit for an interview — or worse, fights a subpoena with an argument that he's above the law — Democrats will be able to widen their appeal both in 2018 and 2020.
With Marine World being relocated, the city was able to the widen the latter section and build an overpass across Fairgrounds Drive in 1992.
The equations apply to a situation of intense erosion rate, such as at peak discharge during the few critical rainstorms, able to generate or to widen gullies.
"By keeping populations healthier, they'll be able to subsidize these devices to widen access," she says.
But I'm tired of people who resist any change by falsely claiming that the government wants to widen participation by attracting less able students.
Bone must also be flexible in order to absorb energy by changing shape, it must be able to shorten and widen in compression and lengthen and narrow in tension without cracking.
