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Example sentences for "lengthily"

Lexicographically close words:
lengthe; lengthen; lengthened; lengthening; lengthens; lengths; lengthways; lengthwise; lengthy; lengua
  1. The better course is to proceed along the highway until you come to the lodge-gates and to the broad, smooth carriage-road leading lengthily down to the mansion.

  2. St. Augustine, more especially, lengthily and emphatically insists upon the general belief of the Pagans in original sin, when he writes against Pelage.

  3. I have described thus lengthily the slow and methodical way in which he set about signing this photograph for the reason that, trivial as the incident may seem, it is illustrative of the character and methods of the man.

  4. Ellen read nearly the whole letter aloud, and it was unusually entertaining, for the ship had been cruising about the last month and Edward described the various scenes and new places he had visited more lengthily than usual.

  5. Tell her all that did occur in that awful storm three days ago, as poetically and lengthily as you like; no one shall interrupt you, if you will only be very careful not to exaggerate or alarm.

  6. This plan is lengthily and approvingly set forth, several times over, in the OEconomies royales, which Sully's secretaries wrote at his suggestion, and probably sometimes at his dictation.

  7. He wrote in the theologian's vein, lengthily and bitterly; his friends listened in silence.

  8. We come to a table-land stretching lengthily forward, covered with the greenish yellow of pastures, and alive with cattle browsing on a sparse turf.

  9. The fact that it was dictated, and the extreme shakiness of the signature at the foot of the three lengthily detailed folio pages, prove that Shakespeare was very ill when his will was made.

  10. Nor is there any foundation for Karl Elze's opinion (also lengthily set forth) that The Tempest was written by 1604.

  11. Mr Gladstone lengthily argued that there were "three distinct grounds" on which it was to him "quite plain that the motion could not be sustained.

  12. He went lengthily into observations on his conduct, to raise against the executive, 1.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lengthily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.