How to use "long" in a sentence

It's not very long - only a little over nineteen kilometres - but it's one of the most difficult bike trails in the US

I have no idea how long I will be here

I wonder how long I'll be able to survive with the water I have left, only two-thirds of a litre

But I'm not comfortable for long

I have to make this last as long as possible

The long, boring hours of the night pass slowly by

All I have for the time I've spent on this is a long red line across my right arm

I'll try to stay alive as long as I can, but I can't imagine living longer than one more day

I have no idea how long anyone can survive on urine alone

The urine tastes better at night because it's colder, but it's still going to be a long, hard night

Brion had waited long enough.

After that, I sit again and it's not long before the visions return

My right hand died long ago

Blood is coming out of the end of my arm and it's a long walk back to my truck.

That won't be long if you don't start walking

I am so weak and tired I can't imagine surviving that long

'How long will that take?'

It's my last thought before falling into a long, deep sleep.

My rescue was only the first part of a long, difficult fight back to health

It wouldn't be long before I would be able to go climbing again

"It was 300 feet long!"

The largest whale was only 180 feet long and if these men were right, this was even larger

What all of us thought was a large whale was a three-hundred foot long underwater ship

They took us through a long dark tunnel

I saw that his men carried something long and flat in a bag

We were a long way under the sea

"How long was it?"

I looked out of the window, and there was a 25-foot giant squid! It moved close to the Nautilus and it hit the window with its long tentacles

As he opened it, a long thick tentacle of the giant squid came inside like a snake and pulled the man outside

Now she was in a very long room

He sat for a long time with his finger in his mouth

She wasn't in the long room anymore, and there was no table or water

'No,' Alice answered, 'but it's the same year for a very long time.'

'It's a long story,' said the Mad Hatter

She was back in the long room, near the little table! 'I'm small now

There was the King and Queen, and a man with a very long knife in his hand.

The White Rabbit stood up and read from a very long paper:

'You slept for a long time!'

And who do you think I saw in the school cafe? Jenny Curran! She was all grown-up now, with pretty black hair, long legs, and a beautiful face

When it got late, he told me to take the harmonica with me, and I played it for a long time in my room.

There were a lot of people there, and Jenny was wearing a long dress and singing

The 'showers' were just a long hole in the ground for us to stand in, while somebody threw water over us

There were about two thousand people waiting for us at San Francisco airport when we got off the plane! What a surprise! A lot of them had beards and long hair

The men had beards, and the women had long, untidy hair

As it happened, I didn't stay in prison long, because they soon realized that I was an idiot, and they put me in a special hospital for idiots

To make a long story short - he did.

'He hasn't got time to be an actor.' 'It won't take long,' said Mr Felder.

I wasn't an actor for very long

He was a big man, with long black hair, and he didn't want to lose!

It was a long game

But I didn't stay long

'Why don't you tell everybody that you're taking a long holiday, Forrest?' he said

'It's a long story,' I said

'How long have we been friends, Forrest? Thirty years? Sometimes it doesn't seem true.' She moved nearer, and gave me a kiss

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities

We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote

I don't claim any constitutionality for a rebellion successful or otherwise, so long as that rebellion means in the ordinary sense of the term, what it does mean, namely, wresting justice by violent means

I, therefore, venture to suggest to my learned countrymen that so long as the doctrine of non-cooperation remains non-violent, so long there is nothing unconstitutional in that doctrine.

I ask further, is it unconstitutional for me to say to the British Government "I refuse to serve you"? Is it unconstitutional for our worthy Chairman to return with every respect all the titles that he has ever held from the Government? Is it unconstitutional for any parent to withdraw his children from a Government or aided school? Is it unconstitutional for a lawyer to say "I shall no longer support the arm of the law so long as that arm of law is used not to raise me but to debase me"? Is it unconstitutional for a civil servant or for a judge to say, "I refuse to serve a Government which does not wish to respect the wishes of the whole people"?

I say to my countrymen so long as you have a sense of honour and so long as you wish to remain the descendants and defenders of the noble traditions that have been handed to you for generations after generations; it is unconstitutional for you not to non-cooperate and unconstitutional for you to cooperate with a Government which has become so unjust as our Government has become.

So long as the Government spells injustice, it may regard me as its enemy, implacable enemy.

Cooperation is a duty only so long as Government protects your honour, and non-cooperation is an equal duty when the Government, instead of protecting, robs you of your honour

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger

He told me that he had not known him for very long

But he won't live long, I'm afraid.'

At the end of the cottages was the entrance to Brown's stableyard, and then the long wall of a school

Hanbury Street is a long street that goes from Commercial Street to Baker's Row, not far from Buck's Row

The door opened to a passage about 7-8 metres long

Her clothes were all old and dirty: a long black jacket down to her knees, petticoats, stockings, a black skirt, and boots

The passage into the yard was about five metres long and extremely dark

She wore a long black jacket, and an old black skirt

He was dressed like a gentleman in a long dark coat, dark hat, and boots with buttons

One evening in October 1815, an hour before sunset, a man with a long beard and dusty, torn clothes walked into the town of Digne

Valjean was so tired that he fell asleep, fully-dressed, on top of the sheets, but he didn't sleep for long

The bishop, who had been bending sadly over a plant damaged by the basket, looked up and said gently, 'I think I was wrong to keep the silver for so long

I should have given it away a long time ago.'

But her happiness did not last long

The weeks passed and, although she was happier than she had been for a long time, Fantine caught a fever

Madeleine set off on the long journey to Arras

But the idea did not last for long

But the object that most attracted Cosette's attention was a large, golden-haired doll in a beautiful long pink dress

He looked very strange with his tall black hat and long yellow coat.

'What took you so long?' Mme Thenardier said angrily when she saw the little girl.

Her happiness did not last long, however

Half an hour later, the people of Montfermeil saw an old man in a tall hat and long yellow coat walking along the road to Paris, hand-in-hand with a little girl dressed completely in black

He took a key from the pocket of his long yellow coat and opened the old wooden door

A tall man in a long coat with a stick under his arm.

He walked along this lane for a long time until, to his horror, he discovered his way blocked by a high wall

A man with a long, grey beard was sitting at the table, writing a letter and smoking a pipe

It's the beard that saved me - my lovely, long, romantic beard!'

Next, he opened a drawer, took out a long knife and tested its blade with his finger

After a long fight, M

Don't be long.'

Cosette spent a long time in front of the mirror, making her hair look beautiful and deciding which dress to wear

It's a long time ago, but do you remember the day when you first looked at me - in the Luxembourg Gardens? And the day you walked past me? Those things happened nearly a year ago

As long as he had Cosette, he would be happy, and it did not matter where they lived

He sat for a long time listening to the sound of distant gunfire in the city, wondering how to get his revenge, when suddenly he heard footsteps

After a long discussion with his friends, Enjolras decided that the married men (there were five of them) had to leave.

A long argument followed, during which each of the married men tried to persuade the others to go

They did not have long to wait.

They were filled with hope that help would come soon, but the hope did not last long

The rebels fought long and hard to defend the stronghold, but finally they had to withdraw to the low wall outside the wine shop

Before long, they broke down the door and rushed inside

A few minutes later, he found himself in a long underground passage, a place of absolute peace and silence

He walked blindly downwards in this way for a long time, his clothes wet with the blood from Marius's wound, the faint whisper of the young man's breath in his ear

He looked round quickly and saw a tall man in a long coat, a large stick in his hand

He stared into Valjean's eyes for a long time, then, stepping back with a look of confusion in his eyes, asked dreamily, 'What are you doing here? Who is this man?'

Marius lay for a long time between life and death in a state of fever, endlessly repeating the name of Cosette.

But Cosette was not unhappy for long

I wouldn't come often or stay very long

Unfortunately, it was a long journey, and he needed money.

'I've spent a long time discovering the truth about Jean Valjean.'

It was not long before the wolf arrived at the old woman's house

Her long blonde hair is beautiful, and her kind, friendly, blue eyes are perfect

She's only going to be one minute!" he shouts, and the attendant stops and gives him a long, hard look with his cold, blue eyes.

He then gives him another long, hard look, but Oliver does not care.

She has long brown hair that right now looks a little untidy

But he laughs and takes a long drink of the cold beer

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

He thinks about home for a moment, but that is too far away now, and too long ago.

Her long blonde hair is elegant and her face full of classical beauty

Sometimes he looks across at the defendant's sister, a young woman with long, dark hair and sad eyes

How long ago was his last visit to this cold stone building? More than twenty years? Well, that is not important at the moment

"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." And again there is a long silence

"But it wasn't," a voice replies, and Brandon turns and sees the dark coat, only this time there is no black hat: just long, red hair

And Owen knew the boy was interested then, and for the first time in a long time he thought that maybe there was something they could do together

For a moment there is nothing, but then two long, grey shapes appear in the clear water, and Jimmy starts to shout again.

Exhausted from a long day at work and made passive by the slow journey home.

He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed."

And the old woman takes a long, thin knitting needle from her bag, and Sarah remembers what the kid said on the tube...

...He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed.

"For how long?"

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

she thinks maybe it came from her long-lost brother

They didn't have long to wait

Sala let out a long, slow breath

It won't take long, and you're free to ask any questions

Then Cham would be torn away from her for two long years.

Before long, they passed through a district that Sala had never visited before

"Yes, your grandmother's brother has been trying to contact her for a long time

"Will you be long? I'd like a word."

Gran hesitated, for a long time

He complained that Sala spent too long running, not realizing that she was waiting..

But this long stream of words wouldn't stop flowing

but it's so long since you last saw him, Gran," said Sala

Once Apat was in bed, Gran, Mom, and Sala talked long into the night, discussing Cham's threat.

Gran gave her a long, hard stare

"I had a long discussion with Mom and Gran last night." She paused

There was a long seat in the hotel lounge, with a low table in front of it

In a moment, de Winter was sitting on a small chair and I was next to Mrs Van Hopper on the long seat.

She was not silent for long, of course

I thought of the long hours to bedtime

If you had not been here, I would have left long ago

'It won't take long and then you can have your tea in peace.'

From its long windows I could see the lawns and beyond the lawns, the sea

We looked at the pictures in the long gallery and at most of the rooms downstairs

'Yes, but she won't stay long

I walked on and at last I came to a long window

It was too big, of course, and too long

I rolled up the long sleeves of the raincoat

The grass round the little house had grown very long

The raincoat, too wide, too long for me, must have been hers too

I had been thinking about that terrible night for so long.

I sat on the long seat under the window

Mrs Danvers held my arm tightly with her long thin fingers

'I've had a long day,' Maxim answered

The dress was very simple, with short sleeves and a long, full skirt

The afternoon seemed very long

Beatrice was wearing a long green dress

There was a long silence

Then I ran from her, back to my room, tripping and nearly falling over my long skirt.

After a long time I got up from the bed where I was sitting

All through that long night, Maxim never looked at me.

The best party I've been to for a long time.'

I wondered how long Maxim would be

I felt as though I had just woken up from a long sleep

I sat on the cliffs for a long time doing nothing, thinking of nothing.

I don't think it will take very long

'How long will they be?' I asked him.

Tomorrow will be a long day.' He held my hand for a moment, but he did not look into my eyes

'We must be together as long as we can.'

The day ahead would be long and tiring

It seemed so long since I had used it

I settled down for the long journey to London

The drive through the centre of London seemed very long

It's been a long day.'

There was a long-distance call for her at six

I saw the staircase at Manderley and Mrs Danvers standing there in her long, black dress

This was a warm and wonderful fantasy, but she could not sustain it for long

It didn't last long enough for Tina to identify the source, but there was a stealthiness about it

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

Not long after his tenth birthday, the boy had asked for more space and privacy than was provided by his original, tiny quarters

As long as she left his things undisturbed, she could continue to entertain the hope that Danny was not dead, that he was just away somewhere for a while, and that he would shortly pick up his life where he had left off

On the wider levels, long dinner tables, covered with white linen, were set at right angles to the stage

As Tina stood in this beautiful theater, glancing down at the colorfully costumed people milling about on the stage, then looking at Joel's rubbery face, listening as her co-producer unblushingly raved about their handiwork, she was happier than she had been in a long time

She took a long shower

In a world of planned obsolescence, Vivienne took pleasure in getting long, full use out of everything that she bought, whether it was a toaster or an automobile

She'd been cleaning for Tina Evans for two years, and she had been entrusted with a key nearly that long.

They pulled the handles for hours at a time, often making a twenty-dollar bill last a long afternoon

Their gaming philosophy was simple: It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you stay in the game

After a long silence, a brief clattering echoed through the house from another room, startling Vivienne

She went to the drawer next to the sink and selected a long, sharp blade from an assortment of knives.

But, no, she was stuck in the past: The Cold War was over, and nuclear tests hadn't been conducted out in the desert for a long time

She hadn't been to church in a long time

After their fourth encounter, she lost track of how long they were together

"I guess you'll have to be here most nights for a long time to come."

And it's been a long time since I've been this awkward about it."

Just a long, agonized scream.

On the right, beyond the craps tables, halfway down the long room, elevated from the main floor, the white-marble and brass baccarat pit catered to a more affluent and sedate group of gamblers; at baccarat, the pit boss, the floor man, and the dealers wore tuxedos

And everywhere in the gigantic casino, there were cocktail waitresses in brief costumes, revealing long legs and cleavage; they bustled here and there, back and forth, as if they were the threads that bound the crowd together.

Halfway across the long room, they stopped at a clearing where a middle-aged man lay on his back, unconscious, in front of a blackjack table

When they were first married, he'd been fun, charming, easygoing, but he had not been that way with her in a long time.

"How long is your break?"

After all, she'd lived with him for a long time, through years of happiness and years of misery, and she'd come to know the limits of his talent for deception and duplicity

As long as she remained a dancer, as long as she devoted her life to him, as long as she hung on his arm and looked delicious, he approved of her

Once, long ago, she had loved him very much

But now she vented some of the acid that had been eating at her for so long, cutting him off in midsentence.

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

She imagined herself leaving her office, walking down the long hallway, opening doors, peering into silent, deserted offices, until at last she found a man sitting at another terminal

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

"Somehow, for some reason, they drove the bus more than four miles off the main highway, four miles off and a hell of a long way up, right up to the damn clouds

I didn't dwell on it when I was alone, like I'd done for so long

It never lasts for long, but when I first wake up, I'm sure he's alive somewhere

"How long will you need?" she asked.

Anyway, Judge Kennebeck and I go back a long way

Maybe he'll be willing to slip into the courthouse long enough on Friday to review my exhumation request and rule on it

As he showed her through the house, he was eager to hear her reaction to it, and she didn't make him wait long.

"Were you married long?"

For a long, long time, they forgot that death existed, and they explored the delicious, silken surfaces of love, and it seemed to them, in those shining hours, that they would both live forever.

"As long as there aren't any religious objections, the law requires the permission of only one parent in a case like this," Elliot said.

"How long?"

Besides, the two of them went back a long way indeed

"As long as you cooperate, you won't get hurt," the tall man assured him.

"It's a lot, thirty or forty questions altogether, but it won't take long if you just sit down over there and cooperate."

She closed the door long enough to slip off the security chain

The one from which the cover painting had been drawn was sixteen pages long

It had been published only two years ago, long after she had decided that horror comics were harmless.

"How long was he here?"

"It took him that long to check out the furnace?"

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

He wheeled around another corner, and then another, trying to disappear from the men in the van long enough to leave them with so many choices of streets to follow that they would have to give up the chase in confusion

A long time had passed since his years in military intelligence, since the nights of fear in the Persian Gulf and in countless cities scattered around the Mideast and Asia

But once more, incredibly, he was being hunted, and he wondered how long he could survive.

We can hide from them for a long time if we have to

"The good old days of spies and counterspies? Sorry, but no, I don't long for that at all

The long L-shaped diner was filled with glimmering surfaces: chrome, glass, plastic, yellow Formica, and red vinyl

Eleven customers were clustered at the end of the long arm of the L, near the entrance, five on stools at the counter, six in the red booths

How long have you known Christina Evans?

No, it can't be done long-distance

The long wing of the diner was nearly full of customers now; about forty people were eating dinner or waiting to be served

She wanted to be enjoying an ordinary meal, on an ordinary evening, in the middle of a blissfully ordinary life, with every reason to expect a long, comfortable, ordinary future

God, yes! Better than I've been in a long time."

I don't know how long they think they can keep him bottled up like this

Eventually, yes, but not for a long time

"That was a long time ago," Alexander said impatiently

But a long time ago you were Stryker's mentor, the man he respected, the man he learned from, and now you've betrayed him

"How long till we land in Reno?"

The hacker geeks in computer operations can probably access all the rental agencies' data files long distance."

Okay? We've got a long, long way to go

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

"If it stays cold in there for long, we'll have to suit up, go in, and move him to another chamber," Zachariah said.

"At least it's never lasted long

The long driveway curved up and to the right, like a width of black funeral bunting draped across the rising, snow-shrouded lawn

Even in the dim light, Elliot could see the fringe of icicles hanging from the roof of the long back porch

Like an old athlete back on the playing field after a long absence, testing his reflexes, taking pride in the fact that his old skills are still there."

After long and arduous lobbying of the director, Alexander had at last been awarded this small jet; and immediately he put two full-time pilots, ex-military men, on the payroll of the Nevada bureau.

His taste for violence would not have been tolerated for long in the old FBI - perhaps not even in the new, thoroughly politicized FBI - or in many other congressionally monitored police agencies

In Tina's dream, Danny was at the far end of a long tunnel

The hole in the wall was not wide enough for him to step through, into her passageway; he could only thrust one arm at her, and his long, bony fingers were an inch or two short of her

"One thing I learned in the military was you have to stop and regroup your forces once in a while, but if you stop too long, the tide will turn and wash right over you."

You can do that sort of thing as long as they know for sure you're capable of paying the entire bill when it comes due a month later."

And I also believe individuals are always smarter and better adapted to survival, at least in the long run, than any institution

"How long do we wait here?"

"Not long," she said as the gate swung inward.

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

They're allowed to go into Reno for shore leave between cruises, but for long stretches of time, they're confined to this 'ship.'"

How long could Danny continue to pave the way? The boy appeared to have some incredible powers, but he wasn't God

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

He was trying hard not to think about the chopper, the bad weather, and the likelihood that they would take a long, swift, hard fall into a remote mountain ravine.

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

He's been waiting a long time

He's been calling you for a long time."

"Right now he's on the verge of starving to death because it's been so long since he's been able to keep any food in his stomach

"How long?" Alexander asked.

got out of the chemical and biological weapons race a long time ago."

But if we closed up shop, if we stopped doing this sort of research just because we were afraid of men like Tamaguchi winding up in charge of it, we'd be conceding so much ground to our enemies that we wouldn't survive for long

He liked to take long, leisurely walks among the tombstones

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

"Not long now," Jack Morgan said.

As long as you're the only ones outside of here who know what happened, you're marked people."

I wish I'd had enough guts to do it a long time ago."

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

After reviewing the chaos that he had inherited, the new head of network decided that even though Darkfall was an exciting script, he didn't want to make a movie "about little creatures living in the walls." He decided that we would film the other script I had done; for which I received primary credit but not sole credit because of Writers Guild rules virtually guaranteeing the first writer some kind of credit as long as that writer's drafts had been composed in one of the languages spoken on Earth.

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

Later, we became quite friendly and he admitted that, for a long time, he had suspected me of killing Andre

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

'Tell me, Uncle, do flies live a long time?'

'I think that fly must have died long ago, Henri,' I said, getting up and walking to the door.

'Do flies live a long time?'

I will never forget that day-long hunt for a fly

After what seemed a very long wait, but was probably only a minute or two, I saw a bright light through my fingers.

Instead of a mouth there was a long hairy vertical cut

From this hung something long and black and wet at the end.

Andre, poor Andre, had gone long ago, it seemed

For a long time we watched the fire eating up Helene's 'confession'.

I've got to see Protheroe, but we won't be long.'

'How long did the lady stay?'

'Was it long before Mr Redding came?'

'But I thought that perhaps my husband wouldn't stay very long

'And you left immediately? How long did it take you?'

'I met him at a dinner not long ago and we had a most interesting talk

He arrived not long afterwards, and not in a good mood

She's been Archer's girlfriend for a long time, and she was alone in the house when it happened! And then, of course, there was Lettice - wanting freedom and money to do as she liked

It must be, if scientific thinking is correct, older than our world, and life on its surface began a long time before this Earth cooled down

At the same time we could hear a faint sound, which changed into a long, loud humming noise

An engineer told me that this was done by a man crawling forwards with a flag on a long pole

It was a long time before he was able to answer my questions, and the answers he gave were puzzled and came in broken sentences.

His back was hurt by the fall of a horse and he lay there for a long time

Thick clouds of steam were pouring from the wreckage, and through it I could see its long legs and tentacles moving in the water.

At that moment I got under the water and, holding my breath until movement was painful, swam under the surface for as long as I could

When the bridge at Walton was coming into sight, I landed on the Middlesex bank and lay down, very sick, in the long grass.

For a long time my brother stared out of the window in total surprise, watching the policeman banging at door after door

The ends of the curve slowly moved apart, until at least they formed a line about twelve kilometres long.

They also noticed a long line of dust rising among the houses in front of them

These waited in a long line, ready for action, right across the mouth of the Thames, watching the Martian attack but powerless to prevent it.

Looking to the north-east, my brother saw the long line of ships already moving away from the approaching terror

Because rushing out beyond the smoke and steam came something long and black with flames coming from it.

I lay there unconscious for a long time, the curate told me, and when I woke up he was wiping my face with a wet handkerchief.

I took hold of his arm, afraid that he might cry out, and for a long time we remained still

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

And suddenly I heard a shout and saw a long tentacle reaching over the shoulder of the machine to the little cage on its back

Then we heard him scream and the sound of long and cheerful calling from the Martians.

'I have been still too long,' he said, loud enough for the Martians to hear, 'and now I must tell the world

I thought that it might not be long enough to reach me

For a long time I lay close to the opening until, encouraged by the silence, I looked out.

It was a passage about ten metres long, designed to reach the main drain on Putney Hill

I stayed there for a long time, looking north over the city

I hid from the night and the silence until long after midnight, in a garden hut in Harrow Road

I lost my way among the streets, and soon saw down a long road, in the half-light of the early dawn, the curve of Primrose Hill

Out of the top of it hung long, brown pieces of flesh, which the birds were tearing away.

I realized the stupidity of the small hope I had held on to for so long

We did not have to wait long

'I have trusted you too long, Effie!' he cried sternly

Her face was turned away from us when we entered the room, but we could see she was wearing a red dress and long white gloves

The first list was too long

It took a long time, but I finally finished

After a long time, we heard George shout, 'We can't breathe under here! Why don't you help us, you idiot!'

They used long, special curses

He was silent all day long.

The long grass covered it

She had wanted this thing for a long time, and yet one side of her said that accepting it was wrong

The dining-room was long with windows overlooking the sea

He tells me that he left Italy a long time ago, for political reasons.

'I'll make any sacrifice, so long as it's honest

The journey from here to Cumberland is too long to do in one day.'

Her face was pale and thin, and her long suffering in the asylum had affected her mind, so that her expression was vague and her memory confused

For a long time I had felt nothing but hatred for Sir Percival, but I could not watch as he burnt to death in the vestry

Throughout her long illness, I had been like a brother to her

You told me long ago that you couldn't explain them to me, but this is an emergency

On 1st December 1955, after a long day's work at the shop, Rosa Parks got on the bus to go home

It has a long history in the West and in other parts of the world.

They also worked long hours and got very low pay - and it was very hard work.

After a long fight, the BBC paid Carrie the same amount of money as the men were paid.

The history of women's empowerment is long, and a lot of progress has been made

Lolita is a lovely girl with long black hair and dark eyes.

It is a long sword fight