Sentence examples for were lengthened from inspiring English sources

Holes were lengthened, trees planted, rough grown.

Deadlines for "punishing" failed schools were lengthened; the definition of "adequate yearly progress" was blurred.

Some stations were lengthened in the 1940s to accommodate bigger trains, making intermediate stops redundant.

Stays were lengthened to six weeks, but the NT government recently reset them back to two after community feedback.

I think those same qualities would be lost if it were lengthened or plumped out to novel length.

In early Middle English short vowels of whatever origin were lengthened in the open stressed syllables of disyllabic words.

On the Ohio River the original 600-foot lock chambers were lengthened to 1,200 feet to obviate double lockage.

Some proposals the government viewed as important were deleted, others were eviscerated, and the timetables for carrying them out were lengthened -- doubled in some cases.

The 18th Street IRT stop opened in 1904 and was boarded up half a century ago when station platforms were lengthened.

A month before the Paddington crash Go-Ahead warned that it would not make any further investment in either Thames Trains or Thameslink unless the franchises were lengthened.

Short vowels remained short in closed syllables before long consonants but were lengthened in open syllables before a short consonant plus an unstressed vowel.