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Example sentences for "lengthen"

Lexicographically close words:
leng; lenger; lengest; length; lengthe; lengthened; lengthening; lengthens; lengthily; lengths
  1. If it is consistent with the sliding scale to discuss the matter, is it necessary to lengthen such hours?

  2. It will be seen, that this practice can be abused, and made to lengthen out Committee meetings to any extent.

  3. Gold was supposed to be obtainable by skill; and above all, the elixir of life, which should enable the possessor to lengthen his term of existence at pleasure, was eagerly sought.

  4. But how the preparation for life does lengthen itself out!

  5. How the preparation for life does lengthen itself out!

  6. In well-marked cases it is necessary to lengthen the shortened structures, and especially the tendo Achillis.

  7. In aggravated cases it may also be necessary to lengthen the tendo Achillis.

  8. True it is he stood in the pillory, an incident which would lengthen the face of any man though it were ever so comely, therefore is no reflection on the natural beauty of Mr Curll.

  9. For those might Cynthia lengthen Phaon's sleep; And bid Endymion nightly tend his sheep; 100 Venus for those had rapt thee to the skies; But Mars on thee might look with Venus' eyes.

  10. Besides the fairy armour, the Prince had a fairy horse, which would gallop at any pace you pleased; and a fairy sword, which would lengthen and run through a whole regiment of enemies at once.

  11. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

  12. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.

  13. Obliged from the first to lengthen his stride in order to keep up with her, Fafa has found his utmost powers of walking overtaxed, and has been left behind.

  14. Over the rim of the sea rise shapes faint pink, faint gray-misty shapes that grow and lengthen as we advance.

  15. There, like a stopped runner whose pantings lengthen to the longer breath, her alarms over the infant subsided, ceasing for as long as she clasped it or was in the room with it.

  16. You would lengthen your stride across a wounded beast?

  17. The Author of the Bible made no mistake when, desiring to lengthen the day, he commanded the sun to stand still.

  18. Accordingly, you know that the spy-glass is made to slide back and forward, and the telescope has a screw to lengthen or shorten the tube according to the distance of the objects observed.

  19. Frequent syringing with clear water will keep off the red spider that often destroys the foliage, and attention to picking the seed pods will lengthen the season of bloom.

  20. This blooms in the spring, which will lengthen the season of calla bloom.

  21. The time that one loses in going around the cameo-set in the center would be sufficient, if conserved, to lengthen a man's life by several months or a year.

  22. Some people, I am sorry to say, have the absurd idea that constant pulling and stretching the ears of their rabbits, whilst even in the nest, greatly helps to lengthen them, but like many cruel and ignorant ideas it is altogether wrong.

  23. To enable you to continue enlarging the bubble and lengthen its life, feed it.

  24. Imitate a Pigeon] When the days begin to lengthen The cold begins to strengthen.

  25. On the way Jalmir took courage to look at the princess more closely, and thought that the king would grow younger, and lengthen his life, if the princess would marry him.

  26. If our king would take her in marriage, he would grow young and lengthen his life.

  27. If the rod has a foot which bolts on a corresponding foot on the eccentric, then to lengthen it a liner of the requisite thickness may be placed between the two feet.

  28. It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

  29. And for the rest, it would be superfluous to lengthen out this recital with useless details.

  30. My bleeding feet have left their mark Wherever they have passed; But now the sun is getting low, The shadows lengthen fast, And Emily, dear Emily, All will be well at last!

  31. Buds, which the breath of summer days Shall lengthen into leafy sprays; Boughs, where the thrush with crimson breast Shall haunt and sing and hide her nest.

  32. We must lengthen out the time," said the practical child.

  33. Lengthen your reins, but remember to shorten them when you want to trot.

  34. Days lengthen a cock's stride each day after Christmas.

  35. At New Year's tide The days lengthen a cock's stride.

  36. No, replied I, an hour of innocence is worth an age of guilt; and were my life to be made ever so miserable by it, I should never forgive myself, if I were not to lengthen out to the longest minute my happy time of honesty.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lengthen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggrandize; amplify; augment; boost; broaden; build; continue; dawdle; defer; dilate; distend; draw; elongate; enlarge; exalt; expand; extend; fatten; grow; hike; hold; increase; inflate; keep; lengthen; maintain; maximize; parlay; perpetuate; preserve; procrastinate; produce; project; prolong; protract; pull; pyramid; raise; retain; strain; stretch; sustain; temporize; tense; thicken; tighten