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.

  • The public longs for a deft campaigner who doesn't seem prepackaged.

  • (He longs to be the lion, but he ends up as the gazelle.)

  • The latter, a compulsive obscene phone caller who longs for his sleek, chic neighbor, is the psychiatric patient of Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), who happens to be the husband of Helen's older sister, chipper Trish (Cynthia Stevenson)--and also a pedophile who, in the course of the film, drugs little boys and has (off camera) sex with them.

  • 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.


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