Example sentences for: long-running

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

  • Suddenly decked out in a snazzy blue suit, he starts dancing acrobatically, Astaire-style, and singing the soda's theme, Sinatra-style ("just for the feel of it" updates the long-running "just for the taste of it" theme of previous Diet Coke campaigns).

  • According to the Pan-Arabic weekly Al-Mushahid Assiyasi , prospects for ending the long-running Lockerbie dispute have been boosted by a complicated deal with Saudi Arabia under which Libya will buy $1.

  • In Britain, a long-running controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops took on aspects of a constitutional battle after Prince Charles defied Prime Minister Tony Blair by publishing an article Tuesday in the Daily Mail criticizing the regulations governing their production.

  • And now an imaginative but severely crime-ridden neighborhood in Minneapolis is threatening to ask President Clinton to declare their district a federal disaster area on the grounds that state and local authorities can't or won't cope with their long-running problems.

  • This long-running campaign (which has helped the brand become the world's most popular) portrays a disciplined man of experience who seems to embody a cowboy code of honor, a traditional regard for women, and the offer of a self-sacrificing friendship with other males who can meet his standards of what it is to be a man.


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