Sentence example with the word 'elongate'

elongate

continue, draw, elongated, extended, lengthen out, lengthy, long, prolong, protract, spin out, stretch, string, tauten, tighten

Definition adj. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow

Last update: October 3, 2015


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The larvae are elongate and worm-like, with short legs but often with hard strong cuticle.   [verb]

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The footless larvae are elongate, worm-like and very active; they feed upon almost any kind of waste animal matter, and when full-grown form a silken cocoon.   [verb]

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He points an elongated finger at Bloom.   [verb]

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Pip," remarked Wemmick, turning to me with his post-office elongated."   [verb]

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This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.   [verb]

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The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had entered an elongated funnel.   [verb]

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| | Frontoparietal | Large, ovoid fontanelle; | Large, elongate fontanelle; | smooth margins; | smooth margins; | flanges absent.   [Please select]

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The Kotzebue Sound type is an elongated truncated pyramid, or obelisk, fluted on all sides (Fig.)   [Please select]

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