lengthened

How To Use lengthened In A Sentence

• See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• 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
• 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.
• The call lengthened into a visit, and as the Baroness finally rose to go, Joy said: An Ambitious Man
• -- If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
• Rather, my instinct is telling me that the "ablautless" forms are coloured by uvulars, hence *-a-, and that ablauting forms stem from a lengthened Narten present, *ɢēb- or *gʰēbʰ- in traditional notation, since it's already been established by other IEists that long vowels are not affected by laryngeal colouring and thus, by extension, they wouldn't be affected by uvular colouring. PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
• I believe that the need for saving has grown tremendously over the past century, primarily because the lifespan has lengthened and more medical care for the elderly is available and desired. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
• - Severly decreased the cost of building cags, but lengthened the time to be similar to carrier builds. 4Players.de News