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
Objective To reconstruct a penis with sensation and erectile function maintained by corpora cavernosa lengthening and skin flap transferring in the penis defect cases.
The lengthening of the days and the anticipation of the new season's produce perk us all up in the restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
2 For a brief definition of the term compensatory lengthening and some interesting examples of it, see an abstract of Campos-Astorkiza, "A Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening", Phonology and Phonetics in Iberia (June 2005) (or view the pdf here). Archive 2008-06-01
With shadows lengthening, there was only 90 minutes until dusk. Times, Sunday Times
If the stride needs lengthening, squeeze with your legs to encourage it to do so. Times, Sunday Times
The odds on the industry surviving in its current form are lengthening by the day. Times, Sunday Times
The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
Hypercarnivory is recognized on the basis of a set of proportions: relative lengthening of the carnassial blade, relative shortening of the face, and relative reduction of the postcarnassial tooth row.
Consider the tactics of advanced placement, the ungraded high school as newly proposed, and the lengthening school year.
-- In this word the diphthong ue is entirely sunk, as well as in the words dialogue, synagogue, &c; out in the words prorogue, disembogue, &c., it is not entirely sunk, for it has the evident effect of lengthening the final syllable. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
His snoring death rattle came at lengthening intervals until it stopped altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Tropylium: "An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole. Masters of the Guild
A small additional amount of flattening and lengthening, with a corresponding increase of the supraciliary ridge, would convert the Australian brain case into a form identical with that of the aberrant fossil. Essays
Objective: Varicose vein is a collective term which describes the distension , lengthening and tortuosity of veins.
With average lifespans lengthening, more plan beneficiaries are retiring than dying.
And yet there was a certain ascetic lengthening of the lines of his face. Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch
The objection here is to lengthening short vowels; this is not a feature of Koranic recitation today except in very restricted contexts.
Innumerable other needless lengthenings might be produced, from which we choose only preventative for preventive, and to experimentalize for to experiment. Formations.
Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
With medical advances lengthening the average life span, the percentage of old people in the population was rising. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Extension associated with lengthening of the Himalayan collision orogen is accommodated by small graben and rifts almost at right angles to the strike of the collision zone.
Asia seems well-situated to capitalize on the lengthening of services supply chains. Now Comes the Global Revolution in Services
With shadows lengthening, there was only 90 minutes until dusk. Times, Sunday Times
PERFECT IN - Ī WITH LENGTHENING OF STEM VOWEL. veniō venīre vēnī ventum (est) _come_ adveniō advenīre advēnī adventum (est) _arrive_ inveniō invenīre invēnī inventus _find_ New Latin Grammar
An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
With medical advances lengthening the average life span, the percentage of old people in the population was rising. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
While we aren't thrilled about the idea of lengthening the election season, we think it's the best way to address the situation until technological advances make overseas voting less cumbersome. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Reified levels of generational cohorts are now living side by side, as new generations are being birthed while multiple older generations still remain, in testimony to ever lengthening lifespans.
Shenstone describes in his "Thoughts on Gardening," several artifices that he put in practice for increasing the apparent distance of objects, or for lengthening the perspective of an avenue by widening it in the foreground and planting it there with dark-foliaged trees, like yews and firs, "then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow or silver osier. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
The afternoon was well advanced: the light like gauze on the bricks and leaves, the shadows lengthening.
Those whose operations and appointments are put off may be returned to the back of lengthening queues, insiders say. The Sun
Focus on swinging back and through the same amount, lengthening your stroke as the putts get longer.
There exist three types of segmental lengthening in oral Chinese, each one matched with certain prosodic events and characterized by their own distinctive temporal variations.
Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
If the stride needs lengthening, squeeze with your legs to encourage it to do so. Times, Sunday Times
It, however, succeeded in lengthening the voyage four days. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
The twilight, lengthening from the shortest day a fortnight before, was but just sufficient to reveal the outline of objects. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
“The choice we appear to be making is trying to modify our way out of this, which has the effect of lengthening the crisis,” said Kevin Katari, managing member of Watershed Asset Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Black Swan
Finally, word-final supershort schwas in penultimate-accented words never trigger vowel lengthening even though the preceding vowel is accented probably because gemination is the default and favoured process. Archive 2008-07-01
If the facility is moved to Brooklyn, all interborough mail would be sent there and then back to Queens, lengthening delivery times. NYDN Rss
The letter D develops gradually the uncial form ... by lengthening the upper stroke of the bow.
However, the odds are also lengthening to a one in 28,000 chance of any prize as the numbers of winners next month reduces.
But a person familiar with the BOJ's thinking said that some central bankers aren't sure whether taking further easing steps such as lengthening the loan duration is worth it, considering the trouble it could cause for money markets. BOJ Looks Set to Add Funds to Lending Facility
It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them. Chapter 26
Streamlining should include lengthening the probationary period, elevating the standard for moving from nontenured to tenured status, and integrating a growth model of student achievement as a proportional, not primary, piece of the evaluation system. The myth of teacher tenure
In Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, Reich then develops the piece by overlaying augmentations of the musical pattern - lengthening of the note values to create a subjective slowing-down.
The second register of notes, which by this lengthening of pipe started from B natural, received the name of clarinet, or clarionet, from the clarino or clarion, the high solo trumpet of the time it was expected that this bright harmonic series would replace. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
Close connection: There is, you see, a close connection between today's curriculum wars and the lengthening lists of impermissible thoughts, between the assault on "Eurocentrism" and the assault on free speech. Curdled Politics On Campus
There's just a touch of power in the sun now, a reassurance that the planet is moving on, tilting towards the light, lengthening the days and getting ready for Spring.
The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
Many European countries adapted this simplest chordophone, adding strings, frets, lengthening or shortening the strings, and changing the body's shape.
First found in Chinese alchemical works emphasizing the lengthening of life and the search for immortality, medical alchemy was integrated first into Islamic and then into Western alchemy and medicine. Alchemy
Only the gilding of the room in some degree brought itself into keeping with the splendours outside, stray darts of light seizing upon it and lengthening themselves out along fillet, quirk, arris, and moulding, till wasted away. The Hand of Ethelberta
Other factors contribute to lengthening postdoc training.
Waiting times for treatment in emergency departments, for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and for surgery are lengthening. Times, Sunday Times
A little perspective and a dollop of humility will go a long way in lengthening a career. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » I Dreamed A Dream
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
Well, for one, the slight elevation elongates and shapes the calf, lengthening the silhouette without throwing one's body into that semisexual provocative arch that got those "F— me" pumps that name in the first place. Sensible and Stylish Summer Sandals
Hydrostatic elongation of the tongue involves narrowing of the tongue vertically and consequent lengthening and protraction from the mouth.
Second, the more streamlined the shape, the better it is for slimming and lengthening the leg. Times, Sunday Times
Those whose operations and appointments are put off may be returned to the back of lengthening queues, insiders say. The Sun
The government is also enacting measures to stabilize public housing prices, such as lengthening the minimum occupancy period before flats can be resold. Coveting Singapore's public housing system
This was deliberately aimed at lengthening the shelf-life of the teeny-bopper bands by not forcing them to do anything more than the single, an instrumental and a couple of remixes.
Lengthening and thickening mascaras, shimmery lip glosses and shadows often take away the attention of the cheeks.
Warm water relaxes the cremaster muscle and allows scrotal lengthening.
Lengthening and thickening mascaras, shimmery lip glosses and shadows often take away the attention of the cheeks.
The shadows were just barely lengthening and Kristram looked at me in disbelief.
So – the diacritics are a feature of phonetics (not phonemics) and of tension, not lengthening. P is for Phonemic Chart « An A-Z of ELT
It has been decided to alleviate the condition of interrogators by lengthening the chain in such a manner that the interrogee will be able to place his hands by the side of his body in a more comfortable manner, without this impairing the security of the interrogators or increasing the risk that the detainee will escape from custody. Israeli Use of Painful Shackling As A Form of Torture
Objective To practice and evaluate callus lengthening for humeral nonunion with large segment defect.
But the conversation languished, and in the ever-lengthening silences all found their thoughts reverting to the idea brutally expressed by Mr. Ryan: Muslin
However, the sun had distorted the shadow, lengthening it.
Darya Kavitskaya in Compensatory Lengthening: Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony (2002) relates her own story about perceptual metathesis on page 48 in footnote 8: "Indeed, in teaching Russian to American students, I noticed many instances of palatalization of the consonant being heard as some kind of diphthongal property of the preceding vowel, for example, [banʲa] 'bath' was misheard and pronounced as [baʲnʲa] or even [bajna]." (link here). Hey, what do ya know?...
And luckily, my biggest error to date was regarding CC's "term lengthening to three terms" meaning "a life time pension" for those who go the distance, when it is actually means "a life time of 'Health Care' benefits". Archive 2006-09-01
The minimum length of shadow during a day is less in summer than in winter and at the solstices it changes from lengthening to shortening or visa versa.
Leonoa had survived by a blade-thin chance, and even so, she lay four days in a stupor, waking for an evening before lapsing into bone fever, its delirious contortions permanently thwarting her spine's straightness, lengthening one arm and legs, and throwing the plates of her skull awry, gnarling her like a knotgrass doll. Cat Rambo
Lengthening the tendon or an attached calf muscle reduces the pressure on the ball of the foot to help prevent and treat diabetic foot ulcers.
The sun also lingers in the sound pattern; sibilants coupled with long vowels elongate the lines, creating the effect of the lengthening rays of the evening sun.
The premise that the lengthening the fleet, be it the city or mofussil buses, would lessen the pressure on the footboards, has just not worked.
With shadows lengthening, there was only 90 minutes until dusk. Times, Sunday Times
When I turned back to walk up to the house through the lengthening shadows I stopped still in amazement.
Conclusions Callus lengthening is a good technique for humeral large segment defect nonunion.
New kids," adds Mr Paterson, "might be subjected not only to the traditional initiations of debagging and head-flushing, but have their satchels torched with lighter fluid, be gassed to death in locked cupboards in the science block, or be found unconscious and dangling by the lengthening loops of their underpants from the second-floor balcony, like a dead parachutist in a tree. Undefined
A few coats of a lengthening mascara will do the trick.
The lengthening queues at the second cashpoint served only to draw more attention to the stunt. Times, Sunday Times
The lengthening of the days and the anticipation of the new season's produce perk us all up in the restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
The horses plodded onward in resignation while the sun westered, and the trees cast ever-lengthening blue shadows across the road. The Robin And The Kestrel
Shadows are lengthening, school uniforms are being stitched up and tans are fading. The Sun
Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time.
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
The odds on the industry surviving in its current form are lengthening by the day. Times, Sunday Times
A quick and easy example of this is Bhadriraju Krishnamurti's use of laryngeals in the 1st and second pronouns *yān 'I' and *nīn 'you' or in his view, *yaHn and *niHn1 to account for lengthening in the nominative which opposes oblique stems *yan- and *nin- lacking added vocalic length. Archive 2009-07-01
I walked downstairs slowly, listening to the lengthening drumbeat slow and pivot.
Heels come with plenty to recommend: their leg-lengthening qualities; the way they lift the dowdiest of outfits. Times, Sunday Times
There is a difference in intonation between a) and b), and in b) there is a lengthening of the on, possibly a different pronunciation of the to (/u/in a) and schwa in b)), and maybe a slight pause between on and to. Going on (adverbs and prepositions)
This had its reflex, to some extent, in lengthening the Conference by discussion of the method that should be adopted for parliamentary procedure. The International Labour Conference
The lengthening queues at the second cashpoint served only to draw more attention to the stunt. Times, Sunday Times
He thought for a moment, the silence lengthening.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to rever ... San Francisco Chronicle In Danger Of Closing
Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
The odds on the industry surviving in its current form are lengthening by the day. Times, Sunday Times
Shadows are lengthening, school uniforms are being stitched up and tans are fading. The Sun
It sounds counter-intuitive, but extending the term lengthening the lease might solve your current problems with the lease. Jim Thomas: Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease, Part 2
This includes a thorough cleaning for semiautos, replacing rocklike recoil pads with ones that actually take up recoil, shortening or lengthening stocks, and adjusting (or replacing) triggers. How to Judge If Rifle Repairs Are Worth the Money
Those whose operations and appointments are put off may be returned to the back of lengthening queues, insiders say. The Sun
M. Fournier mentions an instance in _Pelargonium grandiflorum_, where, owing to the lengthening of the axis, the pedicels, instead of being umbellate, had become racemose; and I owe to the kindness of Dr. Sankey Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The ineluctable result is ever-lengthening wait lists.
_Trifolium repens_, &c. &c. Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of _Pelargonium_ was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
A certain austerity creeps in from the fino casks, lengthening and refining the oily sweetness.
Lengthening a muscle without contracting it at the same time overstretches the muscle and dramatically increases your risk of injury. The Genius of Flexibility
With forward head postures, shortening occurs in the suboccipital muscles and lengthening takes place in the cervical and thoracic erector spinae muscles.
The sky was waning from a light and pale blue to a richer aqua and many of the villages were now emerging from the lengthening shadows.
Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
The lengthening of the days and the anticipation of the new season's produce perk us all up in the restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
However, compensatory lengthening is not universal.
He faces lengthening odds against success. Times, Sunday Times
He faces lengthening odds against success. Times, Sunday Times
The patient was advised of the risks of midshaft tibial osteotomy and lengthening, and she declined surgery.
Live brief demonstrations of cavity preparations, removing cold sores, tooth extractions, teeth desensitization, filling removals, fibroma removals, tori removal, troughing, frenectomy, crown lengthening and uncovering implants are also available. StreetInsider.com News Articles
The lengthening queues at the second cashpoint served only to draw more attention to the stunt. Times, Sunday Times
Shadows are lengthening, school uniforms are being stitched up and tans are fading. The Sun
If the stride needs lengthening, squeeze with your legs to encourage it to do so. Times, Sunday Times
With medical advances lengthening the average life span, the percentage of old people in the population was rising. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
He faces lengthening odds against success. Times, Sunday Times
A spokeswoman said the company was working flat out to get repairs fixed which were holding up trains and lengthening journeys.
As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
The shadows were rapidly lengthening, and in the air there was the crisp, metallic scent of winter.
The missile is shot forward by this means with great force and accuracy of direction; for by the peculiar method of throwing the spear the woomera affords a great additional impetus from this most ingenious lengthening of the arm to that extent. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2

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