Longer has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness. | |
| 2. | The days are getting longer and longer. | |
| 3. | The day is getting longer and longer. | |
| 4. | But day does daily draw my sorrows longer, and night does nightly make grief's length seem longer. | |
| 5. | The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. | |
| 6. | Tom's blinks became longer and longer as he entered the twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep. | |
| 7. | No longer pipe, no longer dance. | |
| 8. | Treatment queues are getting longer and longer. | |
| 9. | The longer someone remains a child, the longer their life will be. | |
| 10. | Muslims who are tolerant are no longer Muslims because they no longer apply the precepts of Islam that are liberticidal. |