Sentence for long | Use long in a sentence

Long example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use long in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for long.

  • You been so long. (8)
  • The sleep was long. (10)
  • How long ago it seemed! (8)
  • I have loved her long. (10)
  • Barto drew a long breath. (10)
  • Harry gave a long whistle. (10)
  • Would she ever live so long? (8)
  • But this was long after the act. (8)
  • His history is long and eventful. (21)
  • How long has this-engagement lasted? (8)
  • How long has Morison been up with you? (8)
  • You never stayed away so long before. (18)
  • Dahlia let fall a long quivering breath. (22)
  • She stood looking down at him a long time. (8)
  • Why should he mind so long as she was happy? (8)
  • And for long I listened, too vague to move my pen. (8)
  • George stood long looking at the apotheosis of his fame. (8)
  • She would have done with him long before he came to Winter. (8)
  • The widow Engelschall had long had her suspicions of Karen. (12)
  • They said they thought that coffee took a long time to boil. (9)
  • It was not long before Anna issued forth and rode down to the vale. (10)
  • He had long, thin, brown hands, and nothing peculiar about his dress. (8)
  • He was lying down after a long tramp, and he seemed very comfortable. (9)
  • I asked you when I was leaving India, how long I was to keep it by me. (10)
  • Giving it to a maid, she took off her long coat and sat down for a moment. (8)
  • Long faces were drawn, and odd stares were directed toward him, in reply. (10)
  • And, getting up, she went to a mirror and looked at herself long and sadly. (8)
  • He sank back into his chair when Fulkerson was gone and drew a long breath. (9)
  • I harp on it because I long for testimony that I leave him to have some reward. (10)
  • She remembered that she had somewhere a little stiletto, given her a long time ago. (8)
  • But for Christian the hours were a long nightmare of grief and shame, fear and anger. (8)
  • It would be impossible for me to get work in Chicago for a long time, if ever again. (13)
  • With any other, I should have been playing the fool, and going my old ways, long ago. (22)
  • Morning had broken, clear and sparkling after the long rain, and full of scent and song. (8)
  • The time was long past when it was of any importance who came there, or if anybody came. (1)
  • Grief treads the starry places of the earth: In thy long track I feel who gave me birth. (10)
  • Long before his death, in 1666, Charles de la Tour sold out his interests to his partners. (19)
  • Not a word passed the lips of these men of iron for a period that seemed oppressively long. (18)
  • In the afternoon he would go out alone and walk for hours, any where, so long as it was East. (8)
  • Is there a long enough passage for fire-travel, so that no waste of heat is lost up the chimney? (17)
  • Thicker crowd the shades as the grave East deepens Glowing, and with crimson a long cloud swells. (10)
  • And Gyp stood motionless, drawing her breath in gasps after her long run; her knees trembled; gave way. (8)
  • Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen. (4)
  • He lay down on a couch, and there stayed a long time quite still, his forehead pressed against the wall. (8)
  • He remembered how he had lain in a long cane chair in the window of his sitting-room off Victoria Street. (8)
  • James was stirred to the depths of his long thin figure; he had no idea his niece held such downright views. (8)
  • I did not wait long, however, to enjoy them; but at once set about securing my escape from my present bondage. (6)
  • So spake she to Zoora the mare, kissing her, and running her fingers through the long white mane of the mare. (10)
  • From the time Davis went out to lunch to the time you cashed the cheque, how long do you say it must have been? (8)
  • Quickly before them the little wine-waiter hurried to the door, his suffering face screwed into one long smile. (8)
  • She determined not to go to bed, and drawing a long chair to the window, wrapped herself in a gown, and lay back. (8)
  • There was nothing left for us but to wander off up the long street to see if there was anything worth sketching. (20)
  • After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the window and opens it. (8)
  • After lunch, when Winton was settling his accounts, she wandered out through the long park stretching up the valley. (8)
  • At Hautmont, the lock was almost impassable; the landing-place being steep and high, and the launch at a long distance. (2)
  • Gyp had long stopped playing, had turned out, ready to go up, and, by the French window, stood gazing out into the dark. (8)
  • Long I sat watching them in their cool communion, half-embraced, talking a little, smiling a little, never once kissing. (8)
  • The delicate thing had not picked his bones: Patrick admitted it; he had seen his brother hale and stout not long back. (10)
  • A taciturn young man, with a long jaw, and wings on his breast, was standing there gazing at it with an introspective eye. (8)
  • So he pronounced his mind, and the long habit of listening to oracles might grow us ears to hear and discover a meaning in it. (10)
  • For long hours on the train he had thought what he should say when he met her, but now his premeditated words seemed to him futile. (13)
  • In one of his many long voyages he heard stories of a Spanish galleon filled {136} with gold and silver sunk off the Island of Cuba. (19)
  • Lord Palmet, deeply disappointed and mystified, went after him, leaving Dr. Shrapnel to shorten his garden walk with enormous long strides. (10)
  • They coloured his farewell to Beckley: the dear old downs, the hopgardens, the long grey farms walled with clipped yew, the home of his lost love! (10)
  • Standing there, she looked long at herself, till, little by little, her face lost every vestige of that disturbance, became solid and resolute again. (8)
  • How long we remained in this situation I know not; but when we recovered we found ourselves alone, without either Gustavus, Philander, or the Banknotes. (4)
  • The Holker had left, forty men effective for service, and needed her rigging overhauled before making for the Long Island rendezvous given by Barclugh. (18)

Also see sentences for: crave, desire, lengthy, pine, prolonged, protracted, yearn.

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