Just before last Christmas, cracks in the church's west wall widened and the roof seemed ready to collapse.

The grinding noise went on, and the crack of light was widening.

The crack widened, and what crawled out was a small spider.

Once she was a few steps past the opening, the crack widened considerably.

"If anything else, any of those things you talked about gets out, or the cracks widen. "

He drew the file across lightly and the crack widened.

The crack widened, opening into some sort of secret door.

The cracks widened and the ice shifted away into the sea.

And, at last, we saw a crack widen in the side.

And the cracks were widening, so that I could no longer patch them with denial.