Sentence examples for widened by this from inspiring English sources

The corridor had widened by this point, with a buffer zone of YPG-held villages securing the road.

That opportunity was widened by the killing this month of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who had been stoking sectarian clashes between the majority Shiites and Sunni Arabs, who had governed Iraq for generations before the American invasion.

This path was later used and widened by the first European settlers.

Her lead in the race to capture the Democratic nomination widened by the day.

As the divisions in her party widened by the minute, the Maybot became ever less functional.

The river was considerably widened by the construction of a dam about 50 miles (80 km) downstream.

Many of the disparities reflect existing divisions in America that have been widened by the housing turmoil.

Some are gaps created, or certainly widened, by the media's increasingly disenchanted analysis of the candidate.

It was created by the Labour government in 2003 and its remit was widened by the coalition government in 2011.

The remaining boiler rooms were widened by 4 feet; to do this and maintain adequate underwater and coal bunker protection, the ships were made 3 feet beamier than the Delawares.

A separation between group means was evident as early as Week 1 and this gap widened by Week 2, at which time likely responders had a 32-point improvement, 4 times that seen in likely non-responders.