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Example sentences for: lengthen

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Still, the user must contend with macrons over some vowels and with the intrusive h , which crops up here and there in order to lengthen a vowel.
This may lengthen the installation time slightly, but it will reduce crane rental fees.
Less pre-fabrication could lengthen the necessary boiler outage somewhat.
Nasal openings are still single, but elongating; and the snout begins to lengthen.
3) [ 32 ] . Specifically, PPK and PPX have been shown to, respectively, lengthen or shorten polyphosphate polymers [ 32 ] . These two enzymes also appear to interact with the nucleotide metabolism of the cell.