Sentence examples for lengthening from high-quality English sources.

• We see people lengthening their careers.”

• Meetings are booming, workdays are lengthening.

• Such shortening and lengthening change the pitch of the tone.

• Barny recalls the physical discomfort he endured during the lengthening process itself.

• But given that its name is “ultra lengthening”, it does what it says on the tin.

• Their concentration and focus is lengthening and their fine motor skills are becoming stronger.

• High on the government’s priority list should be building those extra platforms, and lengthening others.

• Taken together, haste and fatigue and lengthening work hours heightened the risk of accident already endemic on the plantations.

Use lengthening in a sentence.

• Declining sea ice provides Russia with lengthening seasons for shipping routes through the Arctic Ocean, which would previously have been impassable.

• Kevin Debiparshad founded The LimbplastX Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2018 to create a business centered around limb-lengthening cosmetic surgery.

• As a bus operator, if we can’t serve these new areas, it will only mean that more cars are on the road, contributing to congestion and lengthening commuting times.

• The general secretary of the NAHT union, Paul Whiteman, said: “Research evidence shows that there are better methods to help pupils than lengthening the school day.

• Cosmetic limb-lengthening is limited to private clinics and as such there is little concrete data around the number of patients who go on to experience complications.

• Nick Brook, the deputy general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, added: “Research evidence shows that there are better methods to help pupils than lengthening the school day.

• But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters.

• Celtic fans would have been entitled to say that had the Frenchman and chums been as impressive with a Sparta Prague player in front of them instead of a microphone then the club might not have experienced another in a lengthening line of mortifying experiences.

lengthening sentence examples

• Although volume has been pumping up by way of flared legs, widening skirts and lengthening trains for several seasons now (and was very much in evidence this fashion week), this season’s emphasis on the cape silhouette gave the trend a fresh and focus-pulling twist.

• For dairy cattle, which start producing milk at the age of two, an approach in the US has been aimed at lengthening the animals' productive lifespan - so the proportion of the animals' life that is unproductive and spent consuming energy and emitting methane is reduced.

• The government has refused to rule out lengthening the school day and shortening summer holidays in England to help pupils catch up on lost learning, despite fierce opposition from school leaders who warned against attempts to “grind out more hours of learning from tired children”.

• Former Tory leader Michael Howard and ex-chancellor Norman Lamont joined a lengthening list of party grandees to condemn Mr Johnson’s high-wire gambit, following outrage from Sir John Major, Theresa May and Lord Heseltine over proposals which ministers admit will breach international law.