Sentence examples for elongated from inspiring English sources

Its entire head takes the form of a gleaming, elongated shell that suggests a futuristic crash helmet.

But can the short run be elongated in a way that makes the long run longer?

That is not true of comets, which zip in and out of the inner solar system on highly elongated orbits.

Kepler cannot directly detect these eccentric orbits, but a recent paper by Stephen Kane, a NASA exoplanet specialist, used statistical techniques to suggest that Kepler's planets may have similarly elongated orbits although the effect seems to be smaller for smaller planets.

Some lizards spread elongated ribs covered in flaps of skin.

British campaigns are not yet as elongated as American ones; but politics is nevertheless heading into a sort of end game, with ideological battle lines drawn and a vote due within 18 months and perhaps coming much sooner.

An elongated elliptical orbit will allow MAVEN to dip into Mars's thin upper atmosphere and sniff out answers.Mangalayaan's scientific aims are modest.

Each is quite different—"The Dancer" (1913) depicts in bronze a slender nude with elongated, graceful limbs, whereas "Red Stone Dancer" (1913-14) is more abstract and squat, comprised of chunky geometrical shapes carved directly from stone.

And the last meal of this particular specimen of Microraptor did, indeed, have a long third toe.That elongated toe suggests to Dr O'Connor that Microraptor, too, was arboreal, and hints that its feathers may have helped it to move through an environment where hops, jumps and flaps between branches were a regular part of its daily activity.

It also allows elongated headrests to make sleeping easier.

Unusually for a car, it has even found a place in the canon of English children's literature ("Landy" and "Fender"), never mind Tomb Raider and James Bond films.In appearance it has changed little over the years, though it developed a slight bulge below the waistline in early middle age and was then elongated and adapted for countless different purposes.