Sentence examples for not much wider from inspiring English sources

The umpire — Shults, not Smith — instructs a wisp of a batboy not much wider than a Louisville Slugger.

The indigenous footpaths, for centuries not much wider than five or six feet across, were some of the first roads in Chicago to be widened and normalized.

And at the site's southern edge, the proposed Liberty Street Park is not much wider than the sidewalk next to it.

But their houses, especially in the southernmost section, are quite tiny, and many of the streets that wind between them are not much wider than footpaths.

Ralph Henry Reese lives on a narrow street, not much wider than an alley, of two-story row houses in a neighborhood on Pittsburgh's North Side that dates back to the Mexican War.

My apartment, which is in downtown Manhattan, has one of those little balconies that is not much wider than a chair, which, Ms. Ward warned me, a child could use to climb up and over the railing.

Her range isn't much wider than that, but in the big scenes Ms. Britton, an expert at reaction shots and cutting asides, is often there to bail her out.

While fascinating to tech insiders, there wasn't much wide appeal.

But once our basic needs for food, shelter and security are met – and, criminally, in the sixth-richest country in the history of the world they are not – a much wider, non-material, range of conditions for happiness come into play.

The class gap between Kheli and a poor kid in Lomé isn't so much wider than that between a Fieldston student and a poor kid in New York.

In fact, if every time you hear "rocks" used in this way you substitute the phrase "embodies the stasis currently draining our popular culture of its last surviving dregs of vitality", you will not be much wide of the mark.