lengthen

How To Use lengthen In A Sentence

• See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• But there is simply not time to lengthen the prices of the others. The Sun
• He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
• The roundaboutness of the entire production structure is lengthened. Mises Dailies
• They are rather fanatical about lengthening their own lives and fending off death indefinitely.
• As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
• There are jobs to be done as days lengthen and the rate of growth increases.
• The potential financial implications of our lengthening lives are terrifying. Times, Sunday Times
• Climatically, the gradual change view of the future assumes that agriculture will continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen.
• Digital modification stands in for genetic, and so the animals are lengthened, spiralled or moved across the picture plane as if a magnetic force - an exterior one - operated.