ELONGATE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for ELONGATE, such as:
1. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature united us.
2. The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
3. She persuaded him not to wear the small bow ties which made him look like an elongated Sunday School scholar.
4. They also have a feature known as an elongated crest that anchored the upper arm muscles, a feature unique to dinosaurs.
5. This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
2. The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
3. She persuaded him not to wear the small bow ties which made him look like an elongated Sunday School scholar.
4. They also have a feature known as an elongated crest that anchored the upper arm muscles, a feature unique to dinosaurs.
5. This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
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Meanings and Examples of ELONGATE
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elongate
v. make long or longer by pulling and stretching
a. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
Classic Sentence:
1 How tempting, how very tempting, to let the view triumph; to reflect its ripple; to let their own minds ripple; to let outlines elongate and pitch over--so--with a sudden jerk.
2 She persuaded him not to wear the small bow ties which made him look like an elongated Sunday School scholar.
3 So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature united us.
4 The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had entered an elongated funnel.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
5 He entered, after having twisted his mustache and elongated his imperial, which always announced on his part the most triumphant resolutions.
6 This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
7 "Now, that's the way with them here, Mr. Pip," remarked Wemmick, turning to me with his post-office elongated.
8 Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
9 The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
Example Sentence:
1 Under food shortage, the animals might have a strategy in which they elongate life span to increase the total number of offspring produced.
2 A fuzzy photo released Monday - taken from 1.2 million miles away - appears to show the planet as an elongated blob, not a round space rock.
3 They also have a feature known as an elongated crest that anchored the upper arm muscles, a feature unique to dinosaurs.
4 The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.