5 Verbs to Use for the Word wide
At the very commencement of the summer term it was plain to everybody that something was wrong with the dux; he seemed to take no interest in the doings of his companions in the playground, and only once roused himself sufficiently to bang Cross with a leg-guard for bowling awful wides at cricket.
It is as though a batsman were out if he failed to hit three wides.
He dropped a lucky one through a barn the same afternoon and lobbed a few wides over during the next night, but again nothing out of the ordinary.
Twenty-eight off one over, not to mention three wides, would have made Job foam at the mouth.
He opened the window wide, glad to be able to breath the air.