lengthen in English

verb
1
make or become longer.
she lengthened her stride to catch up

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "lengthen" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "lengthen", or refer to the context using the word "lengthen" in the English Dictionary.

1. She had to lengthen her stirrup leathers.

2. I'll have to lengthen this skirt.

3. I need to lengthen this skirt.

4. Can you lengthen this skirt for me?

5. The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out.

6. Also, they “lengthen the fringes of their garments.”

7. 2 She had to lengthen her stirrup leathers.

8. The days start to lengthen in March.

9. The days are beginning to lengthen out.

10. 8 To save time is to lengthen life. 

11. Waiting lists started to lengthen as operations were cancelled.

12. To save time is to lengthen life. 

13. However, after passing (and as the sound waves lengthen), the pitch drops.

14. “Biologists are trying to eliminate disease and lengthen our life span.

15. The more lives lengthen, it seems certain, the more change happens.

16. (Deuteronomy 32:47) Can the Bible really lengthen our days?

17. Weapons may tend to lengthen the duration of wars and intensify the carnage.

18. But Coffin no longer disliked this; he might let his own hair lengthen.

19. Some nouns lengthen a vowel in the plural, such as wahine (woman); wāhine (women).

20. Shadows began to lengthen as the sun sank in the sky.

21. Long-standing museum collections are liable to find their status redefined as perspectives lengthen.

22. Mascaras designed to lengthen or curl the eyelashes often contain nylon or rayon microfibers.

23. Con: Outlines can lengthen your writing time because they take so long to create.

24. ☆Anaboly has been here for over a year with therapy to lengthen her leg

25. Beyond the window their shadows lengthen, aspiring to the stature of a late quartet.

26. There is a plan to lengthen the three - year course to four years.

27. Antonyms for Abbreviate include lengthen, elongate, expand, extend, prolong, protract, amplify, increase, enlarge and strengthen

28. To be a really good runner he needs to lengthen his pace a little.

29. Dynamic Belaying refers to a method of Belaying where you slightly lengthen the fall to soften the impact

30. Often additives are used to intensify or standardize flavor and color, as well as to lengthen shelf life.

31. Antonyms for Capsulize include decompress, expand, open, outspread, outstretch, spread, extend, unfold, unfurl and lengthen

32. One of the continuing financial objectives is to lengthen this average life of debt through selective refinancing.

33. However, if desired, the controversial surgery of limb-lengthening will lengthen the legs and arms of someone with achondroplasia.

34. Why do the Pharisees enlarge their scripture-containing cases and lengthen the fringes on their garments?

35. Fraser's considerate gesture enabled them to lengthen the visit to include a two-week trip to New Zealand.

36. 30 The Ilizarov frame can be used to correct bone deformities, to regenerate bone, and to lengthen limbs.

37. Thus reducing the rate over time may actually lengthen the duration of unemployment for the job seeker.

38. The Ilizarov frame can be used to correct bone deformities, to regenerate bone, and to lengthen limbs.

39. 17 Unique extendable handle that allows the Portable Suction Grab Bar to lengthen and shorten as needed.

40. Alleviation definition: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced synonyms: comfort, assuagement, relief antonyms: lengthen

41. Plans to lengthen military service from 15 to 18 months will also be scrapped if the talks succeed.

42. Since 1975 the Treasury has been working to lengthen the average maturity of the debt, and with good reason.

43. Cursoriality Evolution Biomechanics Increasing stride length 1) Lengthen limbs 2) Loss or reduction of clavicle 3) Dorso-ventral flexion of spine

44. He will lengthen his nose to allow him to nuzzle and may make nudging movements with his head to attract attention.

45. 22 Firm your scapulas against your back torso, lengthen your coccyx toward the floor, and arch your upper torso back slightly.

46. There was plenty of room on the course and it was relatively easy to lengthen it enough to test the professionals.

47. The treatment options for Amputees with short residual limbs are to have the stump prosthesis modified and/or to lengthen the residual limb

48. As a flower’s beauty cannot prevent it from dying in the sun’s “burning heat,” so a rich man’s wealth cannot lengthen his life.

49. Following a regular prostate care routine can also help to lengthen your male genital organ, and even can help to treat some sexual dysfunction.

50. Since 1950 the station had been banned to aircraft weighing more than 60,000 lbs. and heavy earth-moving equipment now moved in to lengthen and strengthen the main runway.