Example Sentences

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Their eyeball has elongated with age, causing images to focus in front of their retina.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It’s true, my meter sprawled a bit at the finish, but that’s nothing to how “Downton Abbey” has elongated this particular plotline.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2016

Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale.

From Time Magazine Archive

To attempt to tell the story in better words than Shakespeare would occur to no one but Miss Braddon, who has epitomised Sir Walter, or to Canon Farrar, who has elongated the Gospels.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

Kumroo is the turtle-dove, one kind of which has elongated tail-feathers.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis