Many of the backers of the Bruiser now exhibited elongating countenances; and, when that champion was thrown heavily at the thirty-first round, his former supporters manifested a desperate inclination to "hedge.
They grow in light sandy soils or sand, and root from below, the tips of the stems elongating and growing forward, the bases of the stems dying; thus the plant slowly moves forward over the sand.
By alternately contracting andelongating its body, it pushes its hindermost legs against the hillock of silk, presses against it the hooks of its feet, so as to get them better entangled, and lets its body fall in a vertical position.
Furthermore, when the moth which is working at elongating its case does not find the threads or hairs of wool to its taste within reach of its head, it changes its place.
The limited area, defined by the neighboring buildings and by the steep slope of the hill against which it stood, prevented even later restorations from elongating its plan.
The orchestra and auditorium exceed the semicircle in every instance where local conformations have not rendered this impossible; but they either do this by elongating the arc with tangents, as in the theatres of Segesta (Fig.
They have the power of elongating and contracting themselves like the snails.
The pool glittered like a dead man's eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water.
The maltster cleared his throat in an exaggerated form for emphasis, and elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit!
Not alone by the addition of matter at its roots, pushing up and elongating its stem: nourishment passes up through its whole length, and is deposited upon its end, just as the nourishment of a tree is deposited upon its extreme branches.
Hydra viridis is a more sluggish animal than the other species of its genus and does not possess the same power of elongating its column and tentacles.
Although they may persist for a time byelongating their tubular zooecia through the substance of the sponge, they do not in these circumstances reach the same development as when they are overgrown by the much softer S.
By elongating the thigh-piece by means of the screw, extension is kept up.
In some cases the swelling attains a large size, elongating the scrotum, and proving a source of very great uneasiness to the patient—so great that some have requested and urged castration.
He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of the guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror.
Buds reddish-brown, oblong or conical, pointed, inner scales whitish, elongating as the bud opens.
As Mr Arabin had already moved out of the parsonage of St Ewold's, that scheme of elongating the dining-room was of course abandoned; but he would have refurnished the whole deanery had he been allowed.
He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror.
The climate certainly has an elongating effect on plants, or leaves, which all tend to come to a point, such as the leaves of the elongated palm trees, for instance, or any of the other spiky plants one finds in parts of the desert.
The inference I drew was that it must be the climatic conditions of the desert that have the elongating effect, not only upon the facial features, but on all the limbs of the people.
He omitted, therefore, reference to the demoniac rages which turned the home into an inferno, and to the quarrels over the machine for elongating the baby's nose.
I invented a machine for elongating it, but his mother won't let me use it.
The patent elongating socket is combined with this revolver in the same manner as with the patent double-trigger revolver, and with the same advantages.
This can be repeated any number of times--elongating the fibres and multiplying their number to an indefinite extent as may be required.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elongating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
