Sentence examples for utterly wide from inspiring English sources

That remark prompted a rare rebuke from China in the form of an editorial from the state-run news agency, Xinhua, which said that the implication that "China has been extracting Africa's wealth for itself is utterly wide of the truth".

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua said in a commentary: "Whether Clinton was ignorant of the facts on the ground or chose to disregard them, her implication that China has been extracting Africa's wealth for itself is utterly wide of the truth".

I stop watching–I even turn away when an outstretched, utterly vulnerable wide receiver is about to take a helmet in his side and hit the ground with the kind of impact that could cause a concussion if he's lucky, worse if he's not.

Utterly awake, senses wide open.

No wonder, then, that British elites are so utterly unrepresentative of the wider population.

With few exceptions, even the most illustrious researchers in the world are utterly unknown to the wider public, an obscurity captured brilliantly in an Onion spoof about "the reckless throngs of photographers that relentlessly hound America's top scientists".

As the plot thickens, it turns out that our hero is utterly expendable to the wider machine, and potentially a minor inconvenience down the line when They have to sideline him to keep his legacy alive for The Cause (not that one, just a generic Cause).

Yes, there is asparagus, fat and utterly irresistible; early broad beans, an exquisite treat; and, if you can find them, the long wide leaves of local wild garlic.

In contrast to Manet's masterpiece, which was a shocking adaptation of a Renaissance visual idea to a contemporary setting, Monet's painting, about 15 feet high by 20 feet wide, was an utterly contemporary, yet unprovocative representation of a group of fashionably dressed picnickers in the forest of Fontainebleau.

Can the country's prisons solve a problem that the wider society has utterly failed to repair?

Her work as a fork-lift operator and a welder is a tossed-off line of dialogue; her interests are undefined; her ostensible lack of refinement is merely a matter of her loud voice and salty vocabulary; her relationships are utterly vague, as is her wider network of interactions, of friends and relatives and colleagues and rivals.