The act of prolonging something

Usage examples of lengthening.

LotR-style Quenya, but the augment, as well as the lengthening of the stem-vowel, still have not been introduced into the language.

The craving was already on her, lengthening her incisors so that she lifted her head toward the broad expanse of chest he was offering her.

A man walking past the alley mouth saw Sharina and frowned, lengthening his pace.

Audley returned the question over his shoulder while lengthening his downhill stride.

The candle Margaret held cast ugly shadows over her face, shaping black hollows under her cheekbones and lengthening her nose.

On the opposite side of the street, another row of buildings took on a gray hue in the lengthening shadows.

As he spoke, the team broke into a canter, quickly lengthening their strides to a gallop.

Thenike running her hands through the air over her body, cupping and smoothing vast tides of electromagnetic energy over her skin, until Marghe felt herself changing, lengthening, growing fur.

But Sandy was a witch, and Natil, as far as Sandy was concerned, was a witch, too, and so this feast of the first noticeable lengthening of daylight after the long darkness of the Winter Solstice, of the purification that went hand in hand with a preparation for the coming spring, had to be kept, even if it were kept a little late.

Egyptian caught its scales glittering in the reflected light of the opposite fire, as it writhed--now contracting, now lengthening, its folds, in pain and unsated anger.

And it was lengthening, falling, some-how growing before his eyes, down over her shoulders in a spilling cascade, a mass that even at the beginning could never have been hidden under the skull-tight turban she had worn.

The limbs quivered and poised like cobras, reached out with a snakish lengthening, down inexorably toward his shuddering helplessness.

With the result that more than four of the lengthening spring hours had passed before the last of the visitors left, and the rest of the day belonged to Caesar.

Crassus insisted everyone put in every moment of the daylight hours, and they were lengthening into summer, still a long way off.

This in turn is set in motion by certain lengthenings and contractions of the appropriate part of the muscular system.