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
Because without it, the walls between us will only get taller and thicker: porous only to the money that flows through them.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
The result is empty space known as the “void,” which allows buildings to get taller and taller and developers to make bigger profits from the sale of more high-floor apartments with sweeping views.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2019
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
“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
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