of Lengthen
Source: Webster's dictionaryVenerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Daniel Webster
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. Annie Dillard
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Arnold H. Glasow
What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source? Metastasio
He spoke, and deep a lengthened sigh he drew, A doleful sound, and vanished from the view: The frightened billows gave a rolling swell, And, distant far, prolonged the dismal yell; Faint and more faint the howling echoes die, And the black cloud dispersing leaves the sky. Luís de Camões
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. Alex Berenson