LENGTHEN


Meaning of LENGTHEN in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the shadows lengthen (= get longer, as it gets later in the day )

Already the shadows were lengthening.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

shadow

Towards the end of the fourth day, as shadows lengthen across sunlit fairways, we witness a test of character as well.

The afternoon was well advanced: the light like gauze on the bricks and leaves, the shadows lengthening .

The shadows had lengthened , he thought, so that probably he had been right and it was towards evening.

And as the shadows lengthened and the light drained from the sky, the crystal began to glow.

Warm shadows have lengthened across the road and the tourists have gone.

The shadows were rapidly lengthening , and in the air there was the crisp, metallic scent of winter.

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

The evening shadows had lengthened still more.

stride

Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack.

Without exchanging a word we lengthened our strides , splashing through puddles, and made for the door.

He had walked away from Sophie and now she lengthened her stride to catch him up.

Quinn walked home the way he had come, lengthening his strides with each new block.

The animal responded at once, quickly lengthening its stride into a gallop.

time

New developments in filtration have been mainly in the direction of improving performance and lengthening the times between backwashing.

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

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As afternoon drew on and the shadows lengthened, her fears increased.

Can you lengthen these pants for me?

He smiled and the creases at the corners of his eyes lengthened.

He wore blue jeans, which had been lengthened with strips of denim.

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

The crack seemed to open wider and lengthen before her eyes.

This particular operation involves lengthening the Achilles tendon.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Again, you can lengthen or shorten the story by including or excluding the various parts, which are mostly self-contained.

Because the muscles are being lengthened, you may experience pain in them.

But as the separation from her husband lengthened, she found herself becoming increasingly despondent.

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

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

The only solution for this is to use a soldering iron to lengthen them!

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

We find out that days are lengthening, why April has fools and how to slow time to a stop.

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