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Discover LudwigThe word 'elongating' is correct and can be used in written English
It means to make or become longer or to stretch out. Example: The yoga instructor taught us how to elongate our bodies and improve our flexibility.
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elongating
verb
Present participle of elongate
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Like them he jumped and spun, but he also borrowed from the ballerinas, elongating and lifting the lines, rising higher on his toes and giving fluidity to arms and shoulders.
This preference can be demonstrated experimentally by artificially elongating the tails of male widowbirds.
Sieve tubes of protophloem are unable to stretch with the elongating tissues and are torn and destroyed as the plant ages.
As he continued, he varied materials and positions (crouching, standing, kneeling, lying down), sometimes distorting the human figure (as by elongating the arms) or replacing human features with other objects (as by putting a cast beam where the head should be).
Prada's pointy shoes with a bow would also pull this look together by elongating the length of the foot to compensate for the width of the skirt – and it comes in two heel heights.
The cambium forms the wood and the inner bark of the tree and is responsible for thickening the plant, whereas the apical meristems are responsible for forming and elongating the primary plant body.
When elongating the burrow, they digest the wood as well.
Meanwhile, the blood supply to the pulp and the roots of the teeth atrophies, and the flow of saliva diminishes; the gums tend to become inflamed and pull away from the teeth, exposing the base, making them unstable and elongating their appearance, especially the lower ones.
The architects are sinking the roadway and elongating the stairway to the main plaza out over it, creating a grand approach.
While we waited for the food, he began dancing, sending a wave from one arm to the other, bending his knees, sticking out his backside, and elongating his spine.
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She connects with jazz's past and prehistory while being entirely about risk and play in the present, making her voice go precise or foggy, deviating from pitch or hyper-elongating a syllable.
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