The carpenter used a widener to make room for the wider plank along the old doorway.

The engineers installed several wideners along the bridge to accommodate wider traffic lanes.

Widen introduced himself as the new curator at the museum.

As the storm approached, the river's banks began to widen, threatening the nearby homes.

The compiler applies a widening conversion when assigning an int value to a long variable to ensure that no information is lost.

Many programming languages allow widening conversions when assigning a smaller numeric type to a larger one.