Sentence examples for lengthen out from inspiring English sources

This shrewd adjustment allowed Robson to lengthen out Kvitova's service game.

Whether the effect is joyful, bombastic or as quiet as can be, the connective tissue is rhythm: the way a melody might hook its way into a foot and lengthen out through the opposite shoulder.

Teti revs the launch's motor, and we're accelerating like a car to catch up, the wind whistling around us. "A little longer!" the coach exhorts through a bullhorn, telling them to lengthen out each stroke.

Imagine how you could concentrically exert energy towards things you'd like to bring into your life -- and then eccentrically lengthen out the process of feeling joy from that activity.

Memoirs are sunset light; shadows of poetic and historic gravity lengthen out of the buoyant comedy.

In days when life prepared for rainy days It lay there, slumped and waiting To dampen down and lengthen out The fire, a check on mammon And in its own way Keeper of the flame.

The evening of rain lengthens out like the long prospect of her future days with only her father for company.

After Gasquet outplayed Wawrinka in the first two sets, Wawrinka settled in for the long haul, lengthening out points as he tried to break down his French rival.

Hence the violin's chanting of time in his work, of the instant present lengthened out in sound, often in long high notes that Ms. Mutter's particular qualities emboldened him to imagine.

"She's just lengthening out those hammies," said Vaughan in commentator mode, noting then that Lewis was facing the wrong way: "You can accelerate all you like, love, it's not going to count".

"If I turn aside a stone which is falling upon my head, I disturb the course of nature, and I invade the peculiar province of the Almighty by lengthening out my life beyond the period which by the natural laws of matter and motion He had assigned it, " he wrote.