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:

  • The Greek government recently stepped up its long-running campaign to get them back and got the British Museum to admit that it bungled their restoration in 1938.

  • Oswald speculates that mass unemployment exists in the world today because of the rise in homeownership and the decline in private renting--trends that are, in turn, the results of long-running attempts by most Western governments to raise the degree of homeownership (largely through subsidies).

  • Two stories view the impeachment and trial of President Clinton as part of a long-running U.S. culture war going back to the Salem witch trials.

  • At age 62, he wrote a "fan letter" to the 36-year old actress Elaine Joyce, whom he had seen in the TV show Mr. Merlin . That resulted in a long-running affair.

  • That no compelling or even cant-ridden explanation for the move came forth made some wonder if it is a billion-dollar slight, born of City Attorney Louise Renne's long-running feud with the bank.


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