elongate

The tiny plant, which will never grow leaves or roots, elongates in a spindly spiral.

By keeping Brody alive, Gansa and his team have forced themselves to elongate his romantic relationship with Carrie as well.

And it's easier to delay something than to make something happen, so things tended to elongate rather than abbreviate.

As an adaptation to saltation the tibia would elongate at the expense of the femur and the index would be more than 100.

Bush inhabitants include several species of lizards and snakes, all of which have rather elongate, slender bodies, and long tails.

These mites are elongate in form, have rudimentary mouth-parts and but four legs.

Subcortical; hexapod; antenn obsolete: body much depressed, with the last segment elongate, terminating in three or more mucros.

These loops, even when made as perfectly as possible, have a tendency to elongate, thus spoiling the adjustment of the wires.