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Idioms and Phrases
For a great distance, over a large area. For example, They searched far and wide for the lost child , or The message went out far and wide . [c. a.d. 900]Discover More
Example Sentences
On our way back to camp after these first observations I planned a far-and-wide excursion for the morrow.
There nearly all the dykes and sluices were dashed to fragments; the country, far and-wide, converted into an angry sea.
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