The valley widened throughout the morning as the rafts swept toward a bright gap between two mountains.

The valley widens in the south, making two sections, a due-south section and a region to the southeast.

The trees thinned out, the valley widened to admit grayness, and now she could see better.

The line reaches Lauter after the narrow valley has widened again.

They develop in areas of compressive stress, such as where a valley widens or bends.

The valley widened even farther, as if it had been but a narrow throat to open country beyond.

He followed the trail, and after a quarter mile came out into an open area, where the valley widened.

The valley widens further to a flat and broad plain.

And as the valley widened his onset grew ever slower.

The middle part of the Durance runs through a landscape that changes as the valley increasingly widens.