Then, with a sharp cracking noise, the split widened dramatically.

The only rational explanation for their seemingly aberrant behavior is that a split in their leadership is widening rapidly.

That's bad enough, but the basic split is widening.

Legal split widens over bill to end monopoly.

The split in my head was widening horribly.

As the split with Byzantium widened, the papacy buttressed its claims to the independent acquisition of power by stressing its divine connections.

The split in biological opinion occasioned by the deadlock to which Charles-Darwinism has been reduced, though comparatively recent, widens rapidly.

The split widened further, more tides of thick inner matter streaming out.

This split can only widen.

During all this time, the split in the Russian ranks that had first showed itself during the final Middle East War had widened progressively.