elongate Sentence Examples

  1. The gymnast's body elongated as she reached for the high bar.
  2. The caterpillar elongated its body as it crawled across the leaf.
  3. The snake elongated its body to reach the mouse.
  4. The giraffe elongated its neck to reach the leaves on the high tree.
  5. The plant elongated its stem as it reached for the sunlight.
  6. The bacteria elongated its flagellum to propel itself through the water.
  7. The amoeba elongated its pseudopod to engulf the food particle.
  8. The cell elongated its membrane to take in more nutrients.
  9. The muscle elongated as it contracted.
  10. The bread dough elongated as it rose in the oven.

elongate Meaning

Wordnet

elongate (v)

make long or longer by pulling and stretching

Wordnet

elongate (s)

(of a leaf shape) long and narrow

having notably more length than width; being long and slender

Webster

elongate (a.)

To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

To remove further off.

Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

Webster

elongate (v. i.)

To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

FAQs About the word elongate

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The gymnast's body elongated as she reached for the high bar.

The caterpillar elongated its body as it crawled across the leaf.

The snake elongated its body to reach the mouse.

The giraffe elongated its neck to reach the leaves on the high tree.