Example sentences for: long-dead

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

  • But Bush "so far does not seem to have the stomach for what is really required on Russia: an American apology (of the sort Clinton so loves to hand out for the long-dead practice of American slavery, for genocide in Rwanda, and for other US moral lapses) and a rebuilding, from the ground up, of this key strategic relationship."

  • Lenin in his mausoleum is an historical symbol of our past, but I agree with Alexiy II, patriarch of all Russia, when he says that it isn't Christian-like behavior to keep the body of a long-dead person on public display."

  • It is only through their written forms that we know anything at all about certain languages, and the written forms of others serve to confirm the findings of diachronic linguistics in positing the pronunciation and sources of long-dead tongues.

  • The long-dead are latecomers to the game of lobbying for rights.


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