Similar words: strengthening, lengthen, lengthened, length, lengthy, strengthen, at length, lengthways. Meaning: [leŋ(k)θənɪŋ] 
n. the act of prolonging something.
n. the act of prolonging something. 
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1. The evening shadows were lengthening.
2. He thought for a moment, the silence lengthening.
3. The council does not support lengthening the school day to fit in other activities.
4. This particular operation involves lengthening the Achilles tendon.
5. The animal responded at once, quickly lengthening its stride into a gallop.
6. We find out that days are lengthening, why April has fools and how to slow time to a stop.
7. Lengthening sales cycles, project deferrals and their negative impact on utilisation rates could see downward pressure on margins.
8. The crimson rivulets were lengthening, tracing lines down his throat and soaking into the collar of his overalls.
9. The shadows were rapidly lengthening, and in the air there was the crisp, metallic scent of winter.
10. In other environments the raising and lengthening rule does not apply.
11. Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows, pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on.
12. Finally, I think I detected a lengthening of some waterproof jackets - fashion or function?
13. Quinn walked home the way he had come, lengthening his strides with each new block.
14. The daylight lengthening as summer approaches.
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15. However, compensatory lengthening is not universal.
16. Third, know correctly the policy of lengthening land contract.
17. The shadows are lengthening for me.
18. Objective To practice and evaluate callus lengthening for humeral nonunion with large segment defect.
19. Improvement of Flexibility – Lengthening muscle and improving coordination between muscle fibres.
20. This skirt needs letting down,(sentencedict.com) ie lengthening by lowering the hem - line.
21. Environmental laws may also slow the effect of monetary policy by lengthening construction periods. 5.
22. New developments in filtration have been mainly in the direction of improving performance and lengthening the times between backwashing.
23. He's looking more and more like the prime suspect in a lengthening string of murders.
24. Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack.
25. The afternoon was well advanced: the light like gauze on the bricks and leaves, the shadows lengthening.
26. Finally, internet businesses are moving into an era where their lengthening track record means they can be analysed alongside conventional companies.
27. Objective : To explore a new operative method of calcaneal tendon lengthening.
28. Methods 29 cases of GMC with obliquity of pelvis were treated with release or lengthening of the contracture of gluteal muscles, 11 with distal transfer of origins of gluteal muscles.
29. Objective To reconstruct a penis with sensation and erectile function maintained by corpora cavernosa lengthening and skin flap transferring in the penis defect cases.
30. Consider the tactics of advanced placement, the ungraded high school as newly proposed, and the lengthening school year.
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