get taller
Example Sentences
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When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad’s operating table for leg-lengthening surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
The skin around their skull bones thickens, their hair grows in, and they get taller, which makes their head appear proportionally smaller.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Examples of the form: One of TCL’s DragonHinge prototypes Something we could all agree to call it: not nearly bendy enough to fit in a pocket The screen stretches to get taller.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2019
The last two years, I’ve been telling him to eat more and try to bulk up or get taller, but it hasn’t worked.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
“Half of those stories are just tall tales, and they get taller with every year that passes,” said Enoch.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
