Lengthen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LENGTHEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make longer
• make or become longer
• make (a vowel or syllable) long.
• To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
• To become longer.
• become long or longer
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make or become longer

Words related to LENGTHEN

lengthened15 lengthener14 lengtheners15 lengthening16 lengthens13

Words that contain LENGTHEN

lengthens13 lengthened15 lengthener14 lengtheners15 lengthening16 overlengthen19 overlengthens20 overlengthened22 overlengthening23

How to use LENGTHEN in a sentence

• I was sitting by the river-bank one evening, watching the shadows lengthen across the water, when I heard a step behind me, and turned to see my friend approaching.
• Looking forward to nothing after death, they could only make the best of the short life permitted to them and do their utmost to lengthen it.
• He was going to leave with the Captain-General, who cared in no way to lengthen his stay, fearful of what people would say.
• Again the silence began to lengthen intolerably, to stretch out into a desert of emptiness, to become fateful with a bitterness too poignant to be uttered.
• You do not wish that they should have the saddest of all reasons for taking care of you, and trying to lengthen out your life.
• A red stream flowing from the side of his head began to spread in the water and lengthen out in the flowing cataract of the Punch Bowl.
• Bowers hung on to the sledge, Evans and Oates had to lengthen out.
• Thus the monotonous, heart-breaking days go by and lengthen into weeks, and the weeks extend into months.
• The dark-browed man had just collected a heavy lump of glass on the end of his blow-pipe, and was blowing into it before giving it the first swing that would lengthen it out.
• Neither is it necessary or desirable that we lengthen out this chapter with quotations from standard theologians.
• Godfrey, in order to lengthen these interviews, started objections at every line, in his apparent anxiety to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
• The shadows were beginning to lie eastwards and to lengthen in long blue hollows and streaks against the clear green turf.
• The professor did everything he could to lengthen the hours of sleep, and therefore of forgetfulness.
• If this business is taken up, it will lengthen our session.
• He was a soldier and a believer in the army, and wished to spend more on it, and to lengthen the time of service with the colors to three years.
• January merged into February, and days began noticeably to lengthen.
• The Author of the Bible made no mistake when, desiring to lengthen the day, he commanded the sun to stand still.
• They fast, they become thin and emaciated, they scourge the skin, and lengthen the beard, they rot, and in these things they place the anchor of their highest good.
• The lines may be repeated ad libitum so as to lengthen the entire series of phrases according to the prevalent enthusiasm and the time at the disposal of the performers.
• Then she took her place in a queue which was beginning to lengthen outside one of the gallery doors of the theater.
• He had seen sails there before, but they never grew any larger, and generally soon disappeared, for it would lengthen the course of any coasting-vessel to approach this shore.
• The disability pension law passed June 27,1890, will greatly lengthen the pension list and increase the annual expenditures.
• And the evening, when the shadows lengthen, and the cows come home, with their bells tinkling along the fringe of the wood.
• It is the most delightful part of the day when the sun goes down and the shadows lengthen.
• Not only did the slope lengthen out, but the light changed from gloom to gold.
• As I watched it, it suddenly began to lengthen out at both ends, like a rapidly spreading fire, and drew a long curtain of luminous mist around the whole northern horizon.
• Slowly, and not without a soft loveliness, the shadows lengthen.
• With a common instinct they slackened their pace, as if to lengthen the time of semi-privacy allowed them.
• Zion must now lengthen her cords and strengthen her stakes, for the wisdom of the wise has become foolishness, that God alone may be exalted.
• It is a beauty, and I confidently expect to lengthen my drive by at least ten yards with it.

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