nationwide

adjective na·tion·wide \ ˌnā-shən-ˈwīd \

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Examples: nationwide in a Sentence

Definition of nationwide

: extending throughout a nation

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Examples of nationwide in a Sentence

The murders attracted nationwide attention.

Recent Examples of nationwide from the Web

The town is home to a plant for Strategic Materials, a nationwide company that recycles more than 3 million tons of glass a year.

— peter marteka, Courant Community, "South Windsor Considering Separating Glass From Its Recycling Stream," 6 July 2018
The nationwide push to evaluate teachers using student standardized test scores is a classic example.

— jack schneider, The Atlantic, "The Problem With Generalizing About ‘America’s Schools’," 5 July 2018
The Federalist Society is a nationwide organization of conservative lawyers who espouse conservative judicial philosophies.

— sarah midkiff, refinery29.com, "Why It Doesn't Matter If Trump Asks His Supreme Court Nominees About Abortion," 30 June 2018
Like with the advent of this nationwide organization of flood survivors.

— bradley babendir, Longreads, "Storytelling the Flood: Elizabeth Rush on Empathy and Climate Change," 7 June 2018
The project of divesting is organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a nationwide organization that tries to get white Americans working on behalf of racial justice.

— julie zauzmer, Washington Post, "Churches make a drastic pledge in the name of social justice: To stop calling the police," 19 Apr. 2018
Conservative groups that bankrolled the Janus case have begun a nationwide push to inform public workers of their new rights to opt out.

— erica l. green, BostonGlobe.com, "Teachers unions hustle to ensure their survival after Janus decision," 14 July 2018
This nationwide delivery service is offering $5 off delivery orders of $20 or more to go toward the purchase of any fry item on the menu from their restaurant partners.

— PEOPLE.com, "How to Get Free McDonald's Fries and More Deals on Friday for National French Fry Day," 13 July 2018
After a nationwide outcry, Trump signed an executive order calling for an end to the separations.

— rafael carranza, azcentral, "Rights group claims family separations continue at border, despite Trump's executive order," 13 July 2018

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First Known Use of nationwide

1891

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nationwide

adverb

Definition of nationwide

: throughout the nation

Recent Examples of nationwide from the Web

That's because Wellbrock's temperament isn't that much far removed from Norris Vaughan, who became a legend in his time turning the Pride into not only a state power but one recognized nationwide as a feared football team.

— richard obert, azcentral, "10 new Arizona high school football coaches who could make an immediate impact," 10 July 2018
But additional hiring is expected to begin at all Kohl’s stores, distribution and e-commerce fulfillment centers, and credit operations nationwide in August, Kohl’s said in a news release.

— marcia heroux pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, "JCPenney to hire 400 in South Florida for back-to-school season," 2 July 2018
The family separations have led to a wave of protests nationwide in the last few weeks.

— daniella silva /, NBC News, "Federal officers move to reopen Portland ICE building closed over protests," 28 June 2018
Groene became a household name nationwide in 2005, after Joseph Duncan broke into her family's Coeur d’Alene home, killed her mother Brenda, brother Slade and stepfather Mark McKenzie, and abducted her, then 8, and her 9-year-old brother Dylan.

— katy moeller and nicole blanchard, idahostatesman, "Shasta Groene violates probation in injury to child case," 24 June 2018
Despite a national unemployment rate that has been this low exactly one month in the last 48 years (April 2000), increases nationwide in total compensation in the private sector have hardly been robust.

— rick romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The problems of full employment — for some," 22 June 2018
The same water contamination had been found in more than 550 public or private drinking water systems in communities near military bases nationwide as of August, according to a recent military report.

— justine mcdaniel, Philly.com, "Pa. moves ahead with blood tests of residents near tainted Bucks, Montco bases," 19 June 2018
Today there are 32 Untuckit stores nationwide with the 33rd set to open in Louisville's Oxmoor Center, 7900 Shelbyville Road on Tuesday.

— kirby adams, The Courier-Journal, "This new store at Oxmoor Center wants you to leave your shirt untucked," 15 June 2018
But traces of the horrific clashes between the Turkish army and insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which claimed thousands of lives nationwide in 2015 and 2016, are easy to find.

— The Economist, "A jailed Kurdish leader could sway Turkey's elections," 9 June 2018