Sentence examples for growing wide from inspiring English sources

"He's really tough," Pietrus said, his head dipping and his grin growing wide.

"Our customers," he said, with eyes growing wide, "are really talking about this thing".

"We had a huge adventure, we had monster storms," he said, his baby-blue eyes growing wide.

Sitting inside her blue tent at the antigovernment sit-in where she has lived since late February, Ms. Karman, the Yemeni human rights activist, said "I didn't expect it," her eyes growing wide, a red flowered veil around her head.

The world is small when you're small, so that was HUGE," he says, his eyes growing wide at the memory of all those Wonka-esque sweets, such as Rowntree Fruit Gums for his dad ("Never the pastilles!"), and Smarties and Crunchie bars for his younger sister and him.

Fassbinder retained the Nabokovian humor but introduced his own astonishing touches, like the moment when Bogarde's Hermann, the owner of a chocolate factory during the rise of the Nazis, stares down into a pile of baby-shaped chocolates in a bin, his eyes growing wide with premonitory horror at what suddenly seems to be a heap of corpses.

The gap between haves and have-nots is growing wider.

That pool is growing wider all the time.

The gulf between Mr Obama and allies is growing wider.

The achievement gap between minority and non-minority students is wide and growing wider.

The gulf between the truth about G.M.O.s and what people say about them keeps growing wider.