Sentence examples for instead of wide from inspiring English sources

And the garden streets were subject to a zoning change last summer, redefined as "narrow" instead of "wide," which limited heights to 55 feet.

As a general rule, it is always better to cast your research net deep instead of wide, to cover less in order to uncover more.

The hard-hitting ex-defensive back now crushes grapes at his Paso Robles winery instead of wide receivers crossing the middle.

"Deadwood" is a counterintuitive western; instead of wide open spaces and men of few words, the town where it is set is a cramped, muddy ghetto peopled by gabby merchants and jabbering prospectors.

According to Councilman Bill de Blasio, the Council approved an amendment to the city's zoning resolution that would designate a cluster of streets in Carroll Gardens as "narrow" instead of "wide," and as a result, limit the heights of buildings to 55 feet, as well as limiting the legal building area of a lot.

Investing as much as $30,000 in such a narrowly focused degree may be risky — especially if the market for a particular job dries up suddenly (the tightening of the real estate industry is a good example) — but going deep instead of wide seems to fit right in with an increasingly segmented world.

Instead of wide-ranging, politically motivated panels, we need narrowly targeted commissions, without sitting members of Congress, modeled on the successful Base Closure and Realignment Commissions of recent decades.

Instead of staring wide-eyed from our cars, we now stare wide-eyed at Facebook or Yahoo, watching triumph or tragedy played out in a real-time photo or two-minute video.

And Ward was in the backfield instead of aligned wide right, the way it went in New England.

The new model looks identical to the old one, except that instead of a wide hinged opening there is a narrow slit, three-eighths of an inch high.

Instead of a wide range of sub-cultures roaming around organically, styles and tastes are dictated by Tumblrs and Instagram accounts.