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broad - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- have: Gregory Hays has described the Greek concept of logos: The term has a semantic range so broad as to be almost untranslatable.
Modifies a noun
- spectrum: Oliver advises on a broad spectrum of company law matters.
- range: Regular film watching of a broad range of films greatly helps.
- bean: Plant at the back: a line of broad beans; a line of garlic the onion; a line of peas.
- daylight: No time, to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
- context: That said, he would set out the broader context for manufacturing.
- category: You will then be presented with a list of broad categories.
Used with adjective complement
- build: The canal was to be built broad to take boats off the River Trent and River Soar.
- offer: Work-based training for young people offer broad based vocational training and work experience.
- have: He has broad ranging experience of dealing with cases of all types including injuries of the utmost severity.
Infinitive complement
- include: At most 9 of the 60.5 posts were in the private commercial sector, defined at its broadest to include tourist facilities.
- embrace: The definition needs to be broad enough to embrace these.
Modifying Another Word
- fairly: This will be a fairly broad discussion; I will try not to deal in detail with the antiquarian background of any particular story.
- overly: It would be overly broad to suggest that only those wills of sufficient wealth were proved there.
- much: Gaelic is, however, relevant to a much broader range of posts, including many of a manual nature.
- extraordinarily: University courses are very specialized, yet in certain respects they are also extraordinarily broad by British standards.
- uniquely: The day will offer a uniquely broad commercially-oriented perspective on the potential for enhancing business effectiveness and competitiveness through the use of HLT.
- very: At the North Cairn continue along the very broad ridge south.
Preposition: in
- scope: Moon Lee's interview, meanwhile, is both shorter, at 18 minutes, and broader in scope, discussing her career overall.
- nature: This meeting is deliberately broad in nature and aims to cover all uses of optical radiation in medicine.
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