We found over 1000 examples of how to use long in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 50 of 1000.
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| 26. | But who really invented the stories nobody knows; it is all so long ago, long before reading and writing were invented. The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time. | |
| 27. | Long, long ago an old couple lived in a village, and, as they had no children to love and care for, they gave all their affection to a little dog. | |
| 28. | How long is too long? | |
| 29. | Cotton may have been used in India as long ago as 3500 BC, and in Peru as long ago as 3000 BC. | |
| 30. | Tom has come a long, long way. | |
| 31. | Sometimes I'm criticized in my own country for professing a belief in international norms and multilateral institutions. But I am convinced that in the long run, giving up some freedom of action -- not giving up our ability to protect ourselves or pursue our core interests, but binding ourselves to international rules over the long term -- enhances our security. And I think that's not just true for us. | |
| 32. | Eat the fish as long as it is fresh; marry the daughter as long as she is young. | |
| 33. | "It's a long story." "Yeah, a long and boring story." | |
| 34. | Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. | |
| 35. | The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed. | |
| 36. | "Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey." | |
| 37. | Sami will be here for a long, long time. | |
| 38. | And forth they bring the broidered tapestry, / with purple dyed and wrought full cunningly. / The tables groan with silver; there are told / the deeds of prowess for the gazer's eye, / a long, long series, of their sires of old, / traced from the nation's birth, and graven in the gold. | |
| 39. | "O light of Troy, our refuge! why and how / this long delay? Whence comest thou again, / long-looked-for Hector? How with aching brow, / worn out by toil and death, do we behold thee now! / But oh! what dire indignity hath marred / the calmness of thy features? Tell me, why / with ghastly wounds do I behold thee scarred?" | |
| 40. | I don't know how long I'd slept; probably for a long time because I felt completely rested. | |
| 41. | Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested. | |
| 42. | How long you can stand on one leg can predict how long you have left to live. | |
| 43. | Long live India, long live Maharashtra! | |
| 44. | A long time ago, people didn't live very long. | |
| 45. | He became a millionaire a long, long time ago. | |
| 46. | We've come a long way, but there's still a long way to go. | |
| 47. | "People are really struggling under this debt for a very long time. Your repayment term is 20 to 25 years, and that’s as long as some people’s mortgages," she said. | |
| 48. | If you look at welding for a long time, then after you can't look at anything for a long time. | |
| 49. | The footprints were 18 to 24 centimeters long, suggesting that the creatures’ bodies were almost 3 meters long. | |
| 50. | The journalists often produce long-winded pieces that take too long to get to the point. |