Broad in a sentence

Broad bars of golden light from the lower windows stretched across the orchard and the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He stood upon a chair, and, holding up the light in his left hand, he curved his right arm over the broad hat and round the long ringlets.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The dog’s jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Looking back we saw the figure moving slowly away over the broad moor, and behind him that one black smudge on the silvered slope which showed where the man was lying who had come so horribly to his end.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on either side.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I looked at the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Now, it opened into a broad broad in which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there, which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad broad of the woodlands.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad, white road.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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Merriam-Webster
— having ample extent from side to side or between limits
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Macmillan
— wide or wider than is usual
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Other Word Forms

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broadest
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Usage

12 uses of ‘broad’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle