lengthening

How To Use lengthening In A Sentence

• 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
• The potential financial implications of our lengthening lives are terrifying. Times, Sunday Times
• Lengthening and broadening of fins is not proof of flight, either. Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no
• Reddish white light flickers from the cupridium, seemingly lengthening the blade, until it is almost a lance. The Magi'i Of Cyador
• The assistant chief watched as she was forced to reclean toilets and showers and was then punished further by being ordered to clean long-neglected storage rooms, light fixtures, and so on, in an ever-lengthening list of humiliating chores. Getting Even
• The excavated ground is used for backfilling a low area at the end of the runway for the purpose of lengthening it.
• In the case of the early lengthening steps, the value of L p is low, suggesting that perhaps half of the structure either unfolds or desorbs to a random coil configuration with little hindered movement.
• Instead, try short angled casts along the near bank, lengthening each cast to thoroughly search the margins.
• The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg