Sentence examples for widening like a from inspiring English sources

"I'm always surprised by what they're playing!" he shouts at the audience, genuinely stunned, his face widening like a cartoon character.

Every day, with dreadful ticket sales and blatant holes in the roster, the gap between the Mets and the Yankees seems to be widening like a fault in the earth.

The picture was the one every child drew a hundred times — the house, the leafy tree, the sun in one corner, the birds overhead, the walkway widening like a river as it flows out from the front door, the family standing on the green grass, a brother, a sister, a mother with her triangle dress, the father twice as big as everybody, the stick fingers overlapping — and that no one ever saved.

I, on the other had, gurn horribly, my mouth widening like an Aardman character, my eyes disappearing into my blotchy cheeks, snot dripping from my scrunched-up nose.

Mighty stands the Howie, with eyes that widen like hungry mouths, as he stalks the back streets of Dublin in pursuit of revenge.

Mr. Shoji's eyes widened like a child's, and he let out a delighted chortle.

That petulance could now widen like a crack in a windshield.

Christina saw the glossy brown crust of it and her blue eyes widened like a child's.

"Ordinarily, you would expect something that deep to widen like a funnel" — resulting in an hourglass-shaped declivity, more like that of the Church Sink, which probably would have swallowed the entire structure.

My eyes widened like a child's might, as I took in the full import of what I was seeing.

"And so the circle goes on ever widening, like ripples from a stone thrown in water".