Sentence examples for was being widened from inspiring English sources
It was recently announced that the scope of the building works was being widened.
We searched for buntings along a channel that was being widened and paved by a brigade of workers who buzzed up on motorcycles and asked if we were hunting pheasants.
While "Lizzie Bright" was set in early-1900s rural Maine, "The Wednesday Wars" takes place in a Long Island suburb and is full of the atmosphere of the late 1960s ("We listened to Walter Cronkite report on the new casualty figures from Vietnam, and how the air war was being widened").
Traffic on I-10 was bumper to bumper, the highway was being widened and heavy equipment lined the roadbed.
Its two national highways are being widened.
The investigation is being widened, they added.
"Gaps between citizens are being widened.
The riverfront promenade is being widened and improved.
It sees an important opportunity for increased business in East Coast ports now that the Panama Canal is being widened.
Progressive conservatism is a modern philosophy that is right for an age in which debate is being widened and power is being diffused.
