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Definition
the distance between two sides; or the range of variety — especially a broad range of knowledge- The introductory courses are meant to add to breadth rather than depth of understanding.
breadth = the range of variety
- a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
- Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.Genesis 13:17 (NIV)
- He was tall and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
- The cnams creaked, but we sat so still that the thing did not sway a hair's breadth.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- Where the canyon pinched to a breadth of less than ten feet, Max ventured a look behind him.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Why, you used to reproach me with breadth!Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- But I can measure distances to a hair's-breadth-always could."Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- The sun was no more than a finger's breadth above the horizon when a runner arrived at the tent.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- She bent to gather up a mud-stained breadth, and followed him up the steps into the hall.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- That night the Mother of the Spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan, weeping for her murdered son.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- 37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.The Bible -- Job
- Their boards barely a hand's breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- I only note his beauty: the smooth brown of his skin, the breadth of his shoulders, the muscles of his arms, so very different from my own.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- If the punt did pass under the bridge without sticking, it would do so by no more than a claw's breadth.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- The width and breadth of this question nearly shook her.Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- My physical limitations are forgotten—my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- I have traveled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail