How to Use elongation in a Sentence

elongation

noun

• The planet is set for its greatest western elongation just before dawn, or around 6:20 a.m. in your local time zone.
  — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• But the growth and elongation of axons does not stop there.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• This reduces the elongation of the cables and prevents them from rubbing against the head tube.
  — Seb Stott, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
• The results showed an elongation of the adductors in his right thigh.
  — SI.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• However, the one on the left appears to be right on the big crater's rim, so the elongation may be due to the ground angle changing.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2011
• Mercury will reach an elongation of 22 degrees from the sun.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 4 May 2021
• Then, the authors merged in extra copies of a gene that cuts the growing chain from its tether, stopping the elongation process.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
• The entirety of this elongation has been added to the legroom available to rear-seat occupants.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• After a pilot that keeps Hank as the fulcrum, the second episode feels like a change of course with an eye toward elongation.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• Nudged ahead by sunshine and highs in the 50s last week, the buds hit Stage 4 out of 6 on Saturday, known as peduncle elongation.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
• Also, Mercury will reach its greatest elongation from the sun as seen from Earth.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• Pink-red Mercury is nearing its greatest elongation from the sun.
  — Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• June 6 marks the planet’s greatest elongation, meaning the world attains its greatest angle away from the Sun as seen from Earth.
  — Karri Ferron, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2015
• Mercury will be at its greatest western elongation, meaning October is the best time to get a view of the planet.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2022
• The net result is not only an elongation of the body overall, but also a thinning out (or compression) in the middle.
  — Kevin Pimbblet, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• One of the women smiled at me, managing both politeness and viciousness in a single elongation of the lips.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 July 2014
• Fillers aren’t as helpful for people with severe elongations or complete tears, though, and require touch-ups every six months to a year.
  — Talia Abbas, SELF, 1 May 2018
• The ancient skull fragment from Apidima lacks this elongation.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• Peduncle elongation was reached on the second earliest date since records of bud stages began in 2004.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
• Only rarely does Mercury reach maximum elongation when the ecliptic is at a steep angle to the horizon, so that it can be spotted against a fairly dark sky.
  — Geoff Gaherty, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2012
• Mercury's elevation will be at its peak for the year in the days leading up to and following its maximum eastern elongation on the 11th.
  — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 31 Mar. 2023
• The speedy planet will hit its greatest morning elongation at 24.9 degrees from the sun before sunrise this morning.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
• May 17 - Stargazers trying to see Mercury won’t have a better chance than on this day as Mercury will be at its greatest eastern elongation.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 4 May 2021
• Reach your bent arm up overhead while allowing your hips to shift to the side, feeling an elongation from your hip all the way up through your fingertips, allowing breath to move into the sides of your body.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-Cpt, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2021
• On Thursday, the National Park Service announced that the blossom buds reached their fourth stage out of six: peduncle elongation.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• The 26-year-old’s condition is characterized by an elongation of a person’s fingers and toes.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Could long-term use of the lenses somehow prevent elongation of the eye, thus impeding myopia’s progression?
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• At the same time, his colleague Robert Harrington, also at the Naval Observatory calculated what the elongation should be if the bump was a moon.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com, 14 July 2018
• On January 12, Venus reaches its greatest elongation, meaning the planet appears farthest away from the sun from our vantage point here on Earth and will be well outside of the solar glare.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2017
• The delicate structure and extreme elongation of this fossilized vertebra strongly suggests its role not as a weapon, but as a warning.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024