Sentence examples for extended somewhat from inspiring English sources

When resting skeletal muscle is extended somewhat beyond the normal length of the muscle, however, a passive force begins to assert itself.

Then, when the cable companies sought to lighten these regulations in the landmark 1996 Telecommunications Act, Mr. Lieberman worked against them and succeeded in having the regulations extended somewhat.

Over the past four years, such "extraordinary measures" have extended somewhat more, with the Bank's bond-buying programme now amounting to £375bn - almost eight times the original estimate.

Seven lines showed scissoring behavior, in which both wings are rapidly extended somewhat outward and then retracted again (File S5).

During an extended jam and after an extended, somewhat coherent intro ("So much talent it's running out his ears"), Brown calls Jackson out of the audience for some dancing and singing, which basically licenses Jackson to do his best James Brown imitation — which is, by the way, very good.

Although these periods of extreme dust storm activity were not as sustained as those experienced in the USA in the mid-1930s, there is a strong case to support the contention that SE Australia experienced its own extended, somewhat episodic version of a Dust Bowl, with a similar combination of causal factors and landscape effects.

Free-tailed bat (family Molossidae), also called mastiff bat, any of 100 species of bats, so called for the way in which part of the tail extends somewhat beyond the membrane connecting the hind legs.

Within galaxies, such as our own Milky Way, the interstellar space, besides being full of stars, planets, asteroids, comets and meteorites, is also pervaded with the "interstellar medium", which is about 99% gas (hydrogen with a little helium) and 1% dust (not the stuff you find under your bed), and fills the "space" between bodies in galaxies and even extends somewhat into inter-galactic space.

Given the decadal averages and the issue of what is meant by "the next" decade, Romm does have a point that the result of the paper could more clearly be described as representing "a period of flat global mean temperatures extending somewhat into the coming decade, following by a very rapid rise in temperature leaving the planet on its long-term trend line by 2030".

Light arrives at various angles, especially the important diffuse light radiation, so that the influence function is likely to extend somewhat beyond the physical crown limits.

The gills are attached to slightly decurrent (extending somewhat down the length of the stem), broad, and packed together closely.