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as in expansion
a wide space or area
vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her
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as in distance
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 length
For next year, DiMeo said Wildcoat might add a shorter length cut to the parka.
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Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Letters will be edited for clarity and length.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
These nails may be short in length, but they're filled with jaw-dropping celebratory details.
—Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
Here is an interview transcript, edited for length and clarity.
—Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
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Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Letters will be edited for clarity and length.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
These nails may be short in length, but they're filled with jaw-dropping celebratory details.
—Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
Here is an interview transcript, edited for length and clarity.
—Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for length
Recent Examples of Synonyms for length
Noun
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While political leaders on both sides of the aisle often tout the benefits of energy expansion, their support tends to fade when local considerations come into play.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2026
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Heirs had raised $750 million from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in December to finance the expansion of its own oil producing facility to 100,000 barrels per day within five years, more than doubling the asset’s capacity when it was bought from Shell in 2021.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, the bottle had only ever moved between Burgundy and Bordeaux, a driving distance of roughly 300 miles.—
Pin Yen Tan 9 min ago,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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These figures position the platform for regional travel, heavy logistics, and emergency response missions that exceed typical urban air taxi distances.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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The black expanse of thin, dense and relatively young basalt from those centers stands in stark contrast to thicker, more buoyant continental crust, which is primarily granite but contains the full gamut of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks and can be billions of years old.—
Evan Howell,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The result is a stellar remnant with a mass between one and two times the mass of the sun, filled with neutron-rich matter crammed into a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Pedestrians can use sidewalks that vary in width from 5 feet to 14 feet wide alongside the new roadway.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Feb. 2026
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With the Oscars just weeks away on March 15, the long-running gathering — a ritual dating to 1982 and returning this year after being canceled in 2025 because of the Los Angeles County wildfires — offered the nominees a welcome stretch of easygoing mingling, largely free of competition.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Following that beatdown, Roupp allowed just four earned runs over his next six starts, easily the best stretch of his major-league career.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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And by the way, when your breadth of audience is as big as ours, right?—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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But the ceremony did serve to highlight the breadth of Italian geography along with the breadth of Italian culture.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Length.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/length. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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