elongation

Example Sentences

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Those include organs as small and seemingly vulnerable as the buds of next year’s leaves and flowers, or the growing tips of twigs and branches where elongation will resume again come spring.

From Seattle Times

But the growth and elongation of axons does not stop there.

From Scientific American

He wove elaborate textures out of canons, inversions, elongations and diminutions.

From New York Times

“When we talk about giraffes, people immediately think about the elongation of the neck,” Meng says.

From Scientific American

With a secret smile, as if she’s keeping something to herself, she is in a continual state of incandescent elongation — stretching bigger, leaning daringly, and always, it seems, reaching for more space.

From New York Times