Example Sentences

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The story is rudimentary: Elongated blue cat people prepare for a gigantic battle with the nasty, militarized, heartless, corporation-backed human colonists, or “sky people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Elongated and sorrowful, punctuated by an ingratiating, bucktoothed grin, it’s a face that inspires both trust and sympathy, a form of instant compassion that is sorely needed for a character who doesn’t always deserve it.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2019

Elongated grooves are created by fragments of rock embedded in the ice at the base of a glacier scraping along the bedrock surface called glacial striations.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

“There was nothing expected about it, and yet it’s needed,” said Ms. Kes of her business, striking a glamorous figure in her Elongated Kimono Dress in black silk and a wild mane of hair.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien