in the whole wide world

idiom

: in the world
I felt like the luckiest girl in the whole wide world that day.

Examples of in the whole wide world in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Get The Recipe 24 of 70 Bourbon-Chocolate Cake With Browned Buttercream Frosting This cake combines two of our favorite things in the whole wide world: bourbon and chocolate. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2023 Happy birthday to my best friend in the whole wide world! Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2022 With the cutest little bug eyes in the whole wide world, Worldwide has been looking near and far for his perfect adopter after travelling across the country due to a natural disaster leading him to be emergency evacuated from his home state of Louisiana. The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2022 Anniversary date with my most favorite person in the whole wide world! Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2021 New Orleans is the biggest little neighborhood in the whole wide world. Lici Beveridge, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2021 My favorite liddo boy in the whole wide world. Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2020

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“In the whole wide world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20whole%20wide%20world. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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