How to Use wide-ranging in a Sentence

wide-ranging

adjective
  • This seems more like the right charge for something this wide-ranging.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The show also seemed to cast with Graziadei’s wide-ranging tastes in mind.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The impact from the hack has been wide-ranging across multiple states.
    Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The crowdsourced bits of data were wide-ranging and often quirky.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The wide-ranging menu is described as Indo-Mexi fusion.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The transgressions among Colts players have been wide-ranging.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And animals as wild and wide-ranging as monkeys, crocodiles, and gazelles played a part in the pet culture of ancient Egypt.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The charges against him, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, served as the backdrop for a wide-ranging attack on the country’s judiciary.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The revelations pulled back the curtain on systemic abuse in women’s soccer and led to wide-ranging fallout across the N.W.S.L.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Through an extensive and difficult process, the wide-ranging field was narrowed down to a handful of candidates in the past few weeks.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The railroad has wide-ranging economic impacts on the region.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Reed said the Hyundai expansion would have wide-ranging benefits.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The other gold medals demonstrated the wide-ranging expertise of the county’s brewers.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The wide-ranging remarks — delivered in both French and English — referred to the ongoing war with staunch support for Ukraine.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The eight pieces of legislation would have wide-ranging effects on transgender minors and adults - from school sports to health care to workplace rights.
    Kimberly Kindy, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
  • Her expectations, hopes and dreams, like those of her older siblings, are high and wide-ranging because they are allowed to be high and wide-ranging.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • At a wide-ranging news conference this month, Mr. Macron argued that an imperfect deal was better than none.
    Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Its wide-ranging impact turns out to be not a quirk, but a byproduct of the East Coast’s unique geology of ancient fault lines and rock composition.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Pick a glass from the short list, or a bottle from the wall inside (the inventory is wide-ranging, both Italian and international).
    Ray Isle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Israel’s war cabinet had ordered the military to draw up plans for a wide-ranging set of strikes against targets in Iran in the event of a large-scale Iranian attack.
    Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Tiny variations in the variables can have wide-ranging consequences.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And a conflict in space that affected those satellites would have wide-ranging implications, not just for the world’s militaries but for civilians around the globe.
    Shane Harris, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Members of staff from all over this large, wide-ranging vocational college have trooped down to meet the girl who wanted to learn about cutting up animals.
    Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Whatever the circumstances, the fact that an IT specialist three years out of high school had access to such wide-ranging, top-secret documents in the first place is, in a word, stunning.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Transcript excerpts included in the filing are wide-ranging and contentious.
    Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As Roberts noted pregame, Yamamoto’s ability to dot the fastball — and, in turn, set up his wicked secondary weapons — has been the most impressive aspect of the pitcher’s wide-ranging skill set.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Every biopic is a selective version of a life, and Bernstein’s wide-ranging and eventful life is more in need of selectivity than most.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, state and local government agencies imposed wide-ranging business shutdowns to combat the spread of the deadly virus.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Drugmakers and a wide-ranging and growing bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023

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