Sentence examples for lengthening day from inspiring English sources

The spring molt of the varying hare is stimulated by the lengthening day, but the rate of molt depends on temperature.

The lengthening day requires the occasional addition of a "leap second" and the readjustment of all accurate clocks worldwide.

Thus, there's an urgency to these January hours; with each lengthening day, each additional few ticks of daylight, we lose time in the creative well.

His prison term may be further lengthened Monday when the court considers additional charges against him.

"This is all because the body's internal clock has a natural period of slightly longer than 24 hours, which means that it has an easier time traveling west and lengthening the day than traveling east and shortening the day," Dr. Girvan said.

Even kids who already have serious health problems are being placed on the lists, which are lengthening every day.

With the litany of horrors lengthening every day, it's hard to stay focused on your coming-of-age novel, your new poem about the fall foliage.

By lengthening the "day" to sixteen or eighteen hours, growers could speed up the initial growth of the plants; later in the growing cycle, they could cut back on light exposure, causing female plants to flower.

Other schools have found ways to lengthen the day using grant money, corporate donations, creative budgeting and restructured class schedules.

The name Haleakala derives from the legend that the demigod Maui imprisoned the Sun there in order to lengthen the day.

This year, that involves figuring out the logistics of the newly lengthened school day -- no easy task in a system with 1,100 schools, 80,000 teachers and 1.1 million students.