Sentence for lengthened | Use lengthened in a sentence

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• They were silent for a lengthened period. (10)
• The day my frock was lengthened to a gown I stood at the altar. (10)
• A lengthened history of the day was telegraphed for her amusement. (10)
• And then like the winter brickfields at midnight, hot fire lengthened out. (10)
• Their spirits partly succumbed to him by a process too lengthened to explain here. (10)
• Her wits were too acute, her nature too direct, to permit of a lengthened confusion. (10)
• His face lengthened immediately; and his voice was the voice of sentiment as he answered. (4)
• And, as if she had been his shadow lengthened out to that far distance, she moved behind him. (8)
• An exclamation, properly lengthened, convinces the feelings more satisfactorily than much logic. (10)
• His month at Whitby lengthened to six weeks, and he was reluctant to leave this secluded corner. (14)
• The visit of the Miss Steeles at Barton Park was lengthened far beyond what the first invitation implied. (4)
• We are precipitated both by the aim and the tedium of the lengthened voyage to insist that they be seen. (10)
• The old man fetched his breath in gasps, which presently smoothed and lengthened into his normal breathing. (9)
• The report from his bedchamber, telling the ladies of his absence, added that he had taken linen for a lengthened journey. (10)
• Mrs. Cavely was her chaperon at the ball, and he was not permitted to enjoy a lengthened conversation sitting with Annette. (10)
• She was indebted to him for that splendid luxury of indecision, which so few of the maids of earth enjoy for a lengthened term. (10)
• He quoted a distinguished Tory orator, to the effect, that any lengthened term of peace bred maggots in the heads of the people. (10)
• Sooth, more easy it seems, down the lengthened array of Achaians, Snatch at the prize of the one whose voice has been lifted against thee. (10)
• The maid lengthened her upper lip and beat her dress down smooth: signs of the apprehension of a crisis and of the getting ready for action. (10)
• The clustered trees stood like temples of darkness; their shadows lengthened supernaturally; and a pale gloom crept between them on the sward. (10)
• They recognized, too well, how a certain kind of conscience would appreciate this rumour; and how the puritans would lick their lengthened chops. (8)
• The sun set, dew began to fall; the river changed, and grew whiter; the sky paled to the colour of an amethyst; shadows lengthened, dissolved slowly. (8)

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