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Example sentences for: longs
How can you use “longs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"Monica told friends she longs to tell Hillary ...
The only problem is that not everybody goes to cocktail parties, or even longs to be up on the latest thing.
An article longs for the bygone days of rock "concept" albums.
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.
When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.