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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "lengthening" in a sentence

    lengthening example sentences

    lengthening


    1. in the lengthening of the afternoons


    2. He pointed out to her how Angel society would be harmed by any success in lengthening biological life


    3. lengthening of your tranquillity


    4. Introductions were made all around, at the village edge, and with relieved farewells they set off into the lengthening shadows of the afternoon for the town barely visible in the distance


    5. The sun now cast lengthening shadows in front of the herd as it plodded steadily along


    6. The lengthening shadows of day’s end were upon the town as Moshe and Gad rode slowly in


    7. into the lengthening shadows of the afternoon for the town barely visible in the distance


    8. The lengthening shadows of day's end were upon the town as Moshe and Gad rode slowly in


    9. encouragement to weary pilgrims as the two rode along in the lengthening shadows cast by


    10. She looked at me with her characteristic and hypocritical smile, lengthening the arms about my neck and rubbing a deceitful kiss on my cheeks, as a greeting

    11. -Heeereetiiics, Get Out! – So she was saying lengthening the syllables in ancient English that no one has heard of and the peasants who constituted her only public acclaimed with effusiveness her sardonic declamations


    12. This involves rapid alternation of lengthening and shortening of muscle fibers against resistance


    13. The shadows were lengthening, deepening back in the woods as the companions strode on down the trail


    14. The shadows were lengthening when they reached the river and peered through the masking bushes


    15. Focus on lengthening the appearance of your neck


    16. White rimmed her eyes as her nose started to morph, her hands lengthening, her bones crunching


    17. emphasis is on lengthening the front torso as you move more fully


    18. began at that point the process of lengthening childhood…another


    19. you have any before and after shots of the lengthening?”


    20. His lengthening hair was beginning to spread out over his broad, tanned back

    21. You may increase the length to about 3 to 4 miles, or lengthening


    22. is rather the progressive lengthening of time that is devoted to the con-


    23. trends in other populations include a lengthening of the


    24. Al'lah gave the resemblance to that unfaithful who was exaggerating in taking care of his wear and religious seem, lengthening his beard and turban to conceal his hypocrisy


    25. is on lengthening the front torso as you move more fully into the


    26. 1680, the poetattempts to indicate the gathering and abating fury of the ghostly revelby the successive lengthening and shortening of


    27. The week passed with studied slowness, each second lengthening into minutes and hours of boring contemplation


    28. The day sped by amidst a fine dusting of powdery snow-frosted trees and afternoon brightness gave way to lengthening sundown shadows


    29. I kept walking but grew tired as the afternoon sunshine gave way to lengthening shadows


    30. can help prevent this from happening but it has the side effect of lengthening the time it takes

    31. How the days were lengthening


    32. Hands poised on each side of his chest, Popearae traced the lengthening bones from underarm to nipple


    33. Having a mob of cannibalistic brutes on the prowl had a way of lengthening one’s stride


    34. Examples include lengthening the time it takes to repay the loan, but having a higher interest rate


    35. Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine


    36. In the evening Madame Bovary did not go to her neighbour's, and when Charles had left and she felt herself alone, the comparison re-began with the clearness of a sensation almost actual, and with that lengthening of perspective which memory gives to things


    37. It was as if Lot’s wife, a pillar of salt, had toppled on the snow-covered ground and spread a lengthening heat melting all in its path


    38. He went up to his coachman, who was dozing on the box in the shadow, already lengthening, of a thick limetree; he admired the shifting clouds of midges circling over the hot horses, and, waking the coachman, he jumped into the carriage, and told him to drive to Bryansky’s


    39. Ben, bouncing across the grass with Brownie at his heels, and seeing the kitten dragging the knitting by a lengthening line of wool, shouted and clapped his hands; Brownie barked, the kitten, desperate, jumped on the tea-table and upset the milk, then jumped down again and swept half the cherries with it; and Ben, snatching up the half-knitted sock-top, fitted it over the kitten's head as a new source of madness, while Letty arriving cried out to her mother against this cruelty—it was a history as full of sensation as "This is the house that Jack built


    40. "They will be out after us in hundreds when night comes on; and already shadows are lengthening

    41. army and lengthening his lines of end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary


    42. All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches


    43. One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later


    44. A lengthening list of wounds and injuries


    45. So rising receivables versus sales or a lengthening number of days in receivables should always trigger a question: Something has changed, it says


    46. It is difficult to find a reason for this change, unless we assume that Napoleon was endeavouring to deceive himself and others by lengthening the lines


    47. He went up to his coachman, who was dozing on the box in the shadow, already lengthening, of a thick limetree; he admired the shifting clouds of midges circling over the hot horses, and, waking the coachman, he jumped into the carriage, and told him to drive to Bryansky's


    48. Yet the shrewd and experienced Kutúzov accepted the battle, while Napoleon, who was said to be a commander of genius, gave it, losing a quarter of his army and lengthening his lines of communication still more


    49. Campbell said it seemed to him something like bribing the members to obtain votes, to talk about lengthening the time so as to accommodate the greatest number of members


    50. A stream of water has worn away the earth to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, and is continually lengthening the chasm, in the direction opposite to its own course

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    Synonyms for "lengthening"

    lengthening perpetuation prolongation protraction

    "lengthening" definitions

    the act of prolonging something