Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a morning-glory vine has grown up its short support and continued along the handle of a nearby laundry pole. Its long stem connects older lower leaves to a fresh curling tip and tiny new leaves well beyond the original frame.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

伸のびる

nobiru

to grow, to lengthen

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょは背せが伸のびてきている。

    She is growing tall.

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  2. 夏なつには草くさがよく伸のびる。

    Grass is luxuriant in summer.

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  3. 髪かみが伸のびてきた。

    My hair has grown out.

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Kanji in 伸

  • 伸expand; stretchOnシンKunのびる・のばす・のべる

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