Sentence examples for my lengthening from inspiring English sources

But at the end of a frazzled day at my desk, fielding emails and phone calls, and despairing at my lengthening to-do list, such obstacles don't register, and I once again start plotting an escape to "my" tiny cabin.

At the end of the first quarter, my lengthening list of things I hadn't bought totalled £1,278.

I'VE eaten many curious things in my lengthening career as a restaurant critic, but I never expected to come across a dish called rags and fungus.

She whitened my face, lengthened my neck, changed the shape of my nose, widened my eyes, elongated my legs, sliced off parts of my arms and thighs and narrowed my hips.

As my legs moved faster and my stride lengthened I tried to visualize some of my favorite runners — Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, Paul Tergat of Kenya — and how they seem to glide effortlessly at impossibly blistering paces.

I straightened my head and lengthened my stride to take a slight lead, but Doug contested it immediately quickly pacing forward, and prompting me to push deeply, lift my legs faster and swing my arms harder.

My shins are against the wall, my arms and head heavy, and as I let the strap around my pelvis take the weight I sense my spine lengthen all the more.

I said to my wife that if I had enough money I'd have my arms lengthened.

Suddenly I got tall and thin, my stride lengthened and I got fast again".

As my 40s lengthened, I inexplicably became ravenous for wisdom and meaning.

It was during the summer of my 41st year; the children had just left for camp; I'd met some friends for gin-and-tonics, when suddenly my forehead lengthened, and it was as if I were looking out from inside a cave.