1
as in expanses
a wide space or area
vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her
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as in distances
the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects
the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline
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Recent Examples of lengths
The Marines went to extreme lengths to shield Sasaki from the media in his five years with them, so much so that the intensely private Ohtani seems like an open book by comparison.
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Wondering how exactly rosemary can encourage your hair to reach new lengths?
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2024
Morphological characteristics of the fish were measured – the size of their eyes; aspects of their gill rakers, cartilaginous appendages fish use to capture tiny invertebrates; fin lengths, jaw shapes, and more.
—Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
The show isn't satiric so much as amused by the absurd lengths to which the Kaylas of our society will go in pursuit of self-definition.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.
—Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Recent opponents had gone to great lengths to limit his production, forcing the ball elsewhere.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
Choose from more than 20 colors and prints in four lengths.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Made with Lululemon’s wrinkle-free fabric, these come in more than a dozen colors and five lengths.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Wondering how exactly rosemary can encourage your hair to reach new lengths?
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2024
Morphological characteristics of the fish were measured – the size of their eyes; aspects of their gill rakers, cartilaginous appendages fish use to capture tiny invertebrates; fin lengths, jaw shapes, and more.
—Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
The show isn't satiric so much as amused by the absurd lengths to which the Kaylas of our society will go in pursuit of self-definition.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.
—Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Recent opponents had gone to great lengths to limit his production, forcing the ball elsewhere.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
Choose from more than 20 colors and prints in four lengths.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Made with Lululemon’s wrinkle-free fabric, these come in more than a dozen colors and five lengths.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Lengths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lengths. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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