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far and wide

Idioms  

  1. 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]

Example Sentences

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Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood: Far and wide as the eye can wander, Heath and bog are everywhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far and wide, diplomats remarked that for the League to have already accumulated 1,000 such documents, constituted no insignificant tribute to its prestige.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far and wide they sounded—over the town and the flat-meadow country—through the darkness.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Far and wide along the horizon blazed the fires of the Austrian camps, while the French were in perfect darkness.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

Far and wide flew the fame of this new herb, as they called it; and kings and queens begged for the seed, since they especially needed heart's-ease.

From Lulu's Library, Volume II by Alcott, Louisa May

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