• light is propagated in a straight line
• his friendship stops short of his purse
• bulk, compass, content, coverage, expanse, extension, extent, footage, latitude, magnitude, quantity, range, reach, size, spread, stretch
• ample, big, broad, bulky, expansive, extensive, large, spacious, voluminous
• speech on the long side
• to disperse, to resound, to run, ran, run, to spread, to unfold
• to cover, to escalate, to expand, to lengthen, to range, to run, ran, run, to stretch, to unfold
• current, prevalent, rife
• expansive, extended, extensive, large, spacious