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elongate - use in sentences
Modifies a noun
- fish: Small elongate fish that usually lives on the sea bottom.
Object
- orbit: It has a highly elongated orbit that is inclined to the ecliptic to a greater degree than Pluto.
- mound: These may have been part of a single elongated mound with the quoit, or separate later additions to the site.
- spine: It appears that the elongated first dorsal fin spines are not always present.
- roundabout: You will meet an elongated roundabout where the train line crosses above to your right.
- neck: The elongated neck has a conical shape for a better grip.
Modifying Another Word
- slightly: You should be able to make out a misty patch which appears slightly elongate.
- dazzlingly: Small elongated dazzlingly debut of an advance for first.
- greatly: Both the dorsal and anal fins, are narrow and greatly elongated, to about the same degree.
- highly: It has a highly elongated orbit that is inclined to the ecliptic to a greater degree than Pluto.
- very: The shadow on the Earth's surface was a very elongated ellipse in these places.
- much: Abdomen characteristically humped with short appendages, except in males where the fourth pair of abdominal appendages are much elongated.
Infinitive complement
- form: Whether the two arms are used as fore legs or the spine is elongated to form a tail, is not of primary significance.
Preposition: in
- direction: The 3D pattern is elongated in the direction of plate motion.
- shape: If the region is square then the resulting oval is circular; otherwise it is elongated in shape.
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