were broadening
- past progressive of broaden.
Example Sentences
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And we’ll be freed from a pair of long-standing proclivities — posting and doomscrolling — that could feel as burdensome as they were broadening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Admissions officers said they were broadening their outreach to high schools and community-based organizations in neighborhoods with lower incomes and educational attainment - places often populated by racial minorities.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2023
Officials also said they were broadening access to the vaccines, which previously were limited to those with known monkeypox exposures.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
In the early ’90s, fashion industry observers noticed that men’s suits were broadening in the shoulders, widening in the lapels, and filling out in the chests.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
The waters were broadening out into wide shining sheets, and the slow, soft music of their rippling was stealing along the great water-walls of the temples and palaces which formed the river-front of Memphis.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by Griffith, George Chetwynd
