Example Sentences

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Raising the minimum wage would be a great way to get at that particular pay-gap widener, since two thirds of minimum wage workers are women.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2014

For what we want is not learning, but knowledge—that is, the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and a widener of our intellectual sympathies.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

He stands in history as a reviser of fiscal policies; an introducer of new administrative modes; a widener of the boundaries of political rights; a ceaseless overthrower of public abuses.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

Tirukala gives the active, the working side of water as a personage, the widener of valleys, the pusher apart of mountains, the maker of all streams and rivers.

From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah

For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is the ability to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and widener of the intellectual field.

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by Bogardus, C. A.