Example sentences for: long

How can you use “long” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of the factors cited for the decline in personal mail volume is falling long distance telephone rates which have made telephone communication more affordable and fostered substitution of telephone calls for personal mail.

  • Accusing the United States and other Western governments of "inexplicable delay" in checking "Serbia's relentless offensive" against Kosovar Muslims, it warned that if the world community continues "to waver and dither over what is happening in Kosovo for long," it will find a "Bosnia-like conflict in [its] lap."

  • If you stick around Capitol Hill long enough, anything can happen.

  • Media conglomeration runs in cycles, so the fish currently progressing through the bellies of the media kings may not stay there for long.

  • A long article speculates about how ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Sumerians greeted the comet on its last visit in 2213 B.C. (It was undoubtedly an important omen--of what, no one knows.)


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