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lengthening

adjective as in extending

noun as in elongation

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Example Sentences

I shut my eyes yet felt aware of the garden at my elbow, the blooms opening as if in time-lapse, the stalks lengthening.

It is never held but chased under the lengthening shadows of habit and fear.

If they all switch to eating red meat, then ten years later, red meat will look like some life-lengthening elixir.

Fossil corals are silent witnesses to the lengthening of days.

In the new book, Vaillant returns bearing another three decades of data as well as his own lengthening perspective.

But the shadows are lengthening, the days come and go, and still my name has not appeared on the court calendar.

In the leaping kangaroo and jerboa a shortening of the arms and lengthening of the legs appear.

The Factor stood at the open door, watching the slowly gathering shadows lengthening upon the trees.

More than once Coronado sickened of his seemingly hopeless and ever lengthening pilgrimage of sin.

"We never knowed it war you," whined the other carefully lengthening the distance between the big man on the doorstep and himself.

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On this page you'll find 239 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lengthening, such as: approaching, continuing, ranging, spanning, spreading, and stretching.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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