LENGTHEN in a Sentence

Learn LENGTHEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for LENGTHEN, such as:

1. To save time is to lengthen life.
2. The baronet's face perceptibly lengthened.
3. And her visit lengthened as the weeks slipped by.
4. Then it languished and lengthened, and became a waltz.
5. My walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the kirk.

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 Meanings and Examples of LENGTHEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lengthen
 v.  extend; make or become longer
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  As Janet curtsied, hoping I was well, I observed my aunt's visage lengthen very much.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
2  And Ahab chanced so to stand, that the Parsee occupied his shadow; while, if the Parsee's shadow was there at all it seemed only to blend with, and lengthen Ahab's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
3  Mary was satisfied with the Parsonage as a present home, and Henry equally ready to lengthen his visit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
5  Then came the lamplighter, and two lengthening lines of light all down the long perspective of the street, until they were blended and lost in the distance.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
6  All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV
7  One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS
8  And her visit lengthened as the weeks slipped by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
10  The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque monsters across the grass.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
11  Then it languished and lengthened, and became a waltz.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
12  What she uttered was a lengthened sighing, apparently at something in her mind which had led to her presence here.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
13  The baronet's face perceptibly lengthened.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
14  The curly crop has lengthened into a thick coil, more becoming to the small head atop of the tall figure.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
15  My walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the kirk.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Moderate drinking may lengthen life, but heavy drinking raises the risk of death.
2  To save time is to lengthen life.