Example sentences for: longs

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

  • 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.

  • There is one endorsement the RPH seeks above all: Ralph Reed's . The RPH longs to sign the former Christian Coalition boss as a campaign consultant.

  • The theory is so elegantly paranoid Culturebox longs to believe it.

  • Sheehy's Hillary longs to be given the same free pass--to have hers be yet another uplifting tale of growth in the face of personal suffering.

  • The only problem is that not everybody goes to cocktail parties, or even longs to be up on the latest thing.


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