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Example sentences for: extend

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If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word "cure."
The Vermont Supreme Court left it to the legislature to decide whether to extend these rights to gay couples through state-recognized marriage or a new category of domestic partnership.
However, as in the base, afferents and efferents extend sparingly to the outer hair cell region.
This indifference does not, however, extend to particular kinds of Indians.
(Presumably protease inhibitors will extend average longevity, but that will only increase Bennett's difficulty.)