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Example sentences for "lengthy"

Lexicographically close words:
lengthens; lengthily; lengths; lengthways; lengthwise; lengua; lenguas; leniency; lenient; leniently
  1. There were many things of extreme interest of which I could write a lengthy account, but they had no bearing on our business.

  2. It was rather a painful and lengthy operation, but I fancy the effort did me good.

  3. For the last few days lengthy obituary notices had appeared in all the papers, innumerable wreaths and crosses had arrived at the house, and letters of sympathy and condolence had poured in upon Lady Rusholm.

  4. For only on such rare occasions as this had they a chance to meet, and there were many lengthy recountings of sicknesses, deaths, and burials.

  5. It consisted of a half-dozen lengthy stanzas, each followed by a still lengthier refrain, and was sung to an ancient and erratic air that rose and fell like the wail of the winter winds in the bare treetops.

  6. Cockburn, who filed a lengthy statement of his reasons.

  7. In all the countries of Europe the causing of abortion is now punishable with more or less lengthy terms of imprisonment.

  8. But there were two additional clauses in the bill which, though grafted in upon it during its lengthy passage through Parliament, were of more gravity than some of original import.

  9. They saw Kanka go up to them, and after she had held a rather lengthy conversation with the pair they were released, much to the astonishment of our friends.

  10. Drearland made a rather lengthy note of this, and seemed much pleased at his young friend's idea of it.

  11. A lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering headmistress of a girl's school.

  12. A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero's elopement with Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out to be a lesbian and leaves him for another woman.

  13. Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve.

  14. Ardently but in good taste, this tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair.

  15. One episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the duping of an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians.

  16. What has just been said about the Catholic being excluded, could easily be exemplified by a lengthy list of facts.

  17. All this is not the gradual outgrowth of lengthy evolution, but was created by God out of nothing in a few days, about six thousand years ago, of which four thousand are reckoned before Christ and two thousand after Christ.

  18. Sad indeed would be the lot of mankind could it attain to certain truth in the most important questions of life only by lengthy scientific investigations.

  19. As these stamps were in use for a fairly lengthy period--nearly thirty years in the case of the 3c--it is obvious that a large number of plates must have been made, especially for those denominations which were generally used.

  20. He preached the funeral discourse, wrote quite a lengthy obituary and poem, and even responded to a request to preach in an evening service.

  21. Besides the foregoing were a number of short poems, also a lengthy poem on Faith, which covers over sixty pages in his book.

  22. The food might be coarse, but there were no lengthy waits between courses; no curious glances from the other patrons.

  23. After rather a lengthy conversation he returned to announce that a detective was coming over by the next train to investigate the case.

  24. But he has a wicked face," she added hastily, as though that fact cancelled a record of lengthy service.

  25. If I may be permitted a rather lengthy digression, "bowdlerised" derives its name from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare.

  26. The typewriter had not then been invented, so everything was copied by hand--a wearisome and deadening occupation where very lengthy documents were concerned.

  27. This has nothing to do with this story I am now writing about Nelka, so I will not go into this complicated and lengthy matter of how I managed to escape from the Finnish Reds.

  28. The front thousands of miles away made transportation of the wounded lengthy and difficult, and, long after the hostilities had come to an end, a steady stream of wounded continued to arrive in the capital.

  29. Footnote *: This sermon gives so graphic and tender a portrayal of the father of one of America's most distinguished ministerial families, that the author feels justified in making so lengthy an extract.

  30. The following is part of a lengthy but very interesting communication written by Mr. Talmage and sent to the Synod of the Reformed Church in 1856: "Amoy, China, Sept.

  31. I trust you will excuse me, for having occupied so much of your time, by so lengthy a communication, but I deem it my duty to place myself right, upon the record, in this matter.

  32. Posterity will wonder, when it comes to read the elaborate, and lengthy despatch, which Mr. Seward prepared on this occasion, how it was possible for him to prepare it in seven days.

  33. But Mr. Seward knew better than to say any such thing, for the simple reason, that this was not the thing which was demanded of him, although he had written a lengthy despatch to prove that it was.

  34. Its total length, including its necessary approaches by embankment on the eastern shore, and by lengthy tressel-work on the western shore is nine thousand nine hundred and fifty feet, or nearly two miles.

  35. Yoski lived in a turning off the Mile-End Road, but anxious to give no inkling as to my destination, I turned in the opposite direction, and after a lengthy détour stopped at my own door.

  36. In it we meet with the same curious transposition of two letters that is found in the second and third elegies; it has also the peculiar metre of Hebrew elegiac poetry--the very lengthy line, broken into two unequal parts.

  37. The discussion of this matter by George Sand is so characteristic of her that, lengthy as it is, I cannot refrain from giving it in full.

  38. I have undertaken a lengthy work [un ouvrage de longue haleine] entitled Histoire de ma Vie.

  39. Knud Baade, who worked from 1842 in Munich, after a lengthy sojourn at the Copenhagen Academy and with Dahl in Dresden, delighted in moonlight scenes, gloomy fir forests, and midnight suns.

  40. Bassanio enters and declares his love, and a long and impassioned duet follows, at the end of which is a lengthy fanfare, succeeded by the strangest caricature of Mendelssohn's Wedding March I have ever heard.

  41. As the spawning season is extended over such a considerable period of time, it is obvious that the amateur will be able to obtain the ova, ready to hatch out, during a similarly lengthy period.

  42. Fortunately, however, such lengthy and complicated proceedings as are necessary to obtain a good stock of trout are not necessary to obtain a good stock of coarse fish.

  43. Callimachus thanks him for his interesting but somewhat lengthy story, and revenges himself by relating his own.

  44. The lengthy episodes, the protracted conversations, enchanted them; it was an age when conversation was at its height in France, and from France the taste spread to other countries.

  45. It was not a lengthy process and, when it was completed, he returned to find his visitor already divested of the coat and standing before the stove.

  46. As for Captain Cy he spent many evening hours, after the rest of his household was in bed, poring over catalogues of toys and books, and the orders he sent to the big shops in Boston were lengthy and costly.

  47. Lem had devoted hours of toil and wearisome mental struggle to the preparation of his address, and it was lengthy and florid.

  48. The examination was a searching and lengthy one.

  49. But the disturbing vision of Lady Mary, with that faint flush on her cheek, appeared several times between the sentences of the rather lengthy epistle.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lengthy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    colossal; diffuse; elongate; elongated; endless; extended; extensive; gangling; giant; gigantic; interminable; lanky; lengthy; long; overlong; padded; prolix; prolonged; protracted; sesquipedalian; statuesque; talkative; tall; unrelenting; verbose; windy; wordy