Example Sentences

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His butter-ball body was elongating, and his huge feet and legs were beginning to shape up.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

I almost thought that one of Bill's remarkable ears was elongating itself until it coiled sinuously towards the wall, but this, no doubt, was illusion.

From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger