How to use "longer" in a sentence

One is longer than the other

When everything is ready, I try to cut through the skin of my arm with the longer knife

My water won't last much longer

Aron's housemates decided not to wait any longer

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

How much longer can I survive? Death could come at any moment

It might take longer to search

Just then, we felt we couldn't swim any longer

Ned Land could not wait any longer.

But I have to say this: the people in the army shouted louder and longer than anybody!

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"?

The joy, the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits

And, because she was carrying an expensive doll and was no longer wearing rags, not many recognized Cosette.

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

"It's like a pod experience, but you stay in for much longer," explained Ding

At last, she knew she couldn't put off her decision any longer, and when she'd finished her studies on the day after the pod experience, she invited Cham to her apartment.

I loved the pod, but I'd be afraid of doing it for longer

What else could I say? Sala was kicking herself for not keeping Wena talking for longer

His nose looked a little longer, and there was a different curve to his lips

You know, I'm starting to think I might stay in for a while longer."

The nurse soon arrived and I was no longer wanted

I could not hide in my bedroom any longer

'Then, one night, I could stand our life here no longer

I was no longer afraid of Rebecca; I did not hate her any more

'It won't last much longer,' he told me

Then we were round the bend of the drive and I could see the house no longer.

She would never forget him, that sweet child who had been such a large part of her, but she would no longer have to live her life around the gaping hole that he had left in it

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

Besides, living in Sacramento, she wouldn't be a nickel duchess any longer; she wouldn't be anyone special; she would be just another elderly lady, living with her daughter's family, playing grandma, marking time, waiting to die.

Each time that Tina moved on to talk to someone else, she regretted leaving Elliot, and each time that she found him again, she stayed with him longer than she had before

The airplane models were no longer in the display case; they were strewn across the floor, and a few were broken

"Then there's 'Vegas syndrome.' Someone gets so carried away with gambling and running from show to show that he forgets to eat for a whole day or longer

"If you want me to, I could stay a little longer."

She was no longer alone.

Tina could no longer sit still

Tina was still tense, but she no longer felt cold inside.

Moreau was no longer merely impatient; he was angry

"Listen, you stupid fuck, I'm not gonna humor you any longer

"The longer we stand here, the better targets we make."

Nevertheless, he was an intelligence agent a hell of a lot longer than he's been a judge, and I guess breeding tells

She stayed a moment longer, staring back into the gloom, where the purple mercury-vapor light did not reach.

If she tried to scream now, she would be able to do so, but she no longer wanted to scream.

She was no longer afraid of facing the awful truth that might be waiting in Reno

The longer he thought about it, the less Kennebeck was able to believe that the Evans woman knew the truth about her son

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

I don't think we'd better rely on that carrot any longer."

The temperature drops abruptly, stays down for two or three minutes, never longer than five, and then it rises to normal again."

I was convinced I no longer needed or wanted the kind of thrills that I thrived on when I was younger."

It'll take us a little longer that way, but at least we'll have a fighting chance

She couldn't control herself any longer, so she allowed her own tears to come, rivers of tears, a flood

Occasionally wind found the aircraft and pummeled it, but the chopper bobbed and weaved like a good boxer, and it no longer seemed in danger of being dealt a knockout punch.

And like syphilis, Wuhan-400 can't survive outside a living human body for longer than a minute, which means it can't permanently contaminate objects or entire places the way anthrax and other virulent microorganisms can

The first network head is no longer in the business

The second network head is no longer in the business

The development executive in charge of the project is no longer in the business

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

The studio executive who brought the project to the network is, I am told, no longer in the business

'Under the steam hammer! Please come quickly, Francois! I can't bear it much longer!'

And yet I knew that if I looked at the horror for much longer, I would go on screaming for the rest of my life.

Certainly not longer.'

'Dear Clement, it began 'Sorry, I cannot wait any longer, but I must...' Here the writing ended.

He had been dead much longer than that.'

Ten minutes - a quarter of an hour - not longer than that.'

'Colonel Protheroe just wrote that he couldn't wait any longer

And yet at twenty past six he sits down and says he "can't wait any longer".'

'Imagine,' I said, 'that at about 6.30 Colonel Protheroe sat down to write that he couldn't wait any longer

'Would you mind if I kept it a little longer?'

He wouldn't have needed to tell you that he couldn't wait any longer until after half-past six

After the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they went to the towns on the Essex coast to take people onto their ships

He would probably have stayed longer it the sound or guns had not begun at about that time in the south

When we looked out I saw the country covered with black dust, but we were no longer trapped

The Martians at the bottom of the pit could no longer be seen, because the earth around it was now so high

'I couldn't keep it to myself any longer.'

Lady Glyde won't live much longer.'

In many countries, women's fight to be in sports has taken longer