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Example sentences for "lengthened period"

  • For a lengthened period he was chief boatman at the Ferry inn, Windermere, in which capacity he is well remembered.

  • This was Matthias Nicholson, who, through a lengthened period, stood unrivalled at all the wrestlings and other athletic exercises and manly sports, which took place in the neighbourhood.

  • The manor of Ebury afterwards became the property of a family named Davis, who owned it for a lengthened period.

  • It was equally the resort of high and low, and with all classes was for a lengthened period a favourite place of recreation.

  • Skelton’s productions are numerous, and extend over a lengthened period, among them a series of portraits of the reigning family from George III.

  • It is a well-known fact that the human mind is so constituted that after brooding over imaginary circumstances for a lengthened period it will frequently grow to regard such fables as facts.

  • To which we may add during the latter years of this period occasionally hiring out for short intervals, but never at the early age and for the lengthened period necessary to give consistency to Mrs. Dickenson's suppositions.

  • A lengthened period of blessed peace followed in which all men served the Lord.

  • On this apparently so simple question being asked, a strange thing happened which will only be understood by smokers who, long accustomed to the weed, have for some reason or other been deprived of it for a lengthened period.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lengthened period" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstract terms; certain districts; could swim; could venture; dear uncle; discriminating duties; elected governor; empty house; enormous quantity; great speech; just west; king and; know whether; lengthened period; lowed thet; nervous system; none else; our situation; plate number; shell from; supernatural revelation; weigh anchor