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lengthen English

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Definitions in simple English

lengthen

If you lengthen something, you make it longer in length or duration. If something lengthens, it becomes longer in length or duration.

lengthen

make longer Lengthen this skirt, please become long or longer In Spring, the days lengthen

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Conjugation lengthen conjugation

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lengthen · verb

Examples lengthen examples

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Simple sentences

The coat is a bit too short. Can you lengthen it?

Movie subtitles

Just lengthen the odds a bit, like 110 to 1.
Guaranteed to lighten the load and lengthen the life of that partner in the home, th-th-the housewife.
It's getting late, the shades of the afternoon begin to lengthen and like a cage full of birds, our life is full of moan.
But lengthen lives? Poppycock. I can do more for you if you just eat right and exercise regularly.
Well, lengthen it, then.
Oh Lord, support us all the day long of this troublest life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the fever of life is over and Thy work is done.
It's easier to shorten the man than to lengthen the box.
Slowly lengthen, lift that right leg up and hold it.
The shadows lengthen and we have a long and arduous journey ahead of us.
Each piece of fresh information Just seems to lengthen the journey.
The shadows begin to lengthen, do they?
Class, eh! You've had to lengthen a max of wheat on this one.
The days lengthen, grasses reemerge and along stream bottoms the promise of the future is renewed.
O Lord, support us all the day long. until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes. and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over. and our work is done.
But lengthen lives? Poppycock.
It's easier to shorten the man than it is to lengthen the box.
How would you feel if someone decided to extend your nose, remove your ears, lengthen your neck and paint your body candy-apple red?
O Lord, support us all the day long until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over and our work is done.
Lengthen the crew's mission.
They shorten their supply lines and lengthen ours.
Our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal.
Lengthen and settle.
Lengthen the sleeve.
Lift and lengthen that foot.
Told you. I lengthen the injector pulse a millisecond.
I'd lengthen it a couple of centimeters, but the rest seems perfect.
But lengthen lives?
So you want me to lengthen this and shorten that?
OLord,supportusallthedaylong. until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes. and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over and our work is done.
Lift, and lengthen that foot.
I lengthen the injector pulse a millisecond.
Indian Runner has a 20:1 in odds of lengthen.
Well, when your legs lengthen. I calculate you will be among the great cloud haulers of the world.
Beauty and talent like yours should lengthen my power for another ten years.
There's a procedure where we'd connect an expansion rod on the outside of your face and turn it periodically to lengthen your jaw.
I'm happy we're doing this. I'd much rather do this than lengthen some guy's tendon.

News and current affairs

A recent study showed that a positive attitude did not lengthen the lives of lung cancer patients.
The net result is that the accord should lengthen the period it would take Iran to produce one or more nuclear weapons from several months to as much as a year, making it more likely that such an effort would be discovered in time.
The purpose of the European fiscal framework is to lengthen the time horizon of policy and to make decision-makers more aware of the debt-sustainability challenges that they face.
They can lengthen their debt maturities by imposing controls on capital inflows, as Chile and Colombia have done.
Of course, several recent Latin American presidents succeeded in changing their countries' constitutions to lengthen their terms in office.

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