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Example sentences for "little longer"

  • We must trespass a little longer on your kindness.

  • His affection for her soon sunk into indifference; hers lasted a little longer; and in spite of her youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to reputation which her marriage had given her.

  • Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.

  • Totty and Miss West chatted a little longer, then put on their hats to have a ramble in Lambeth Walk.

  • Just as she was reluctantly turning to go up and wait a little longer in her bedroom, a sound below at once startled and relieved her.

  • Still we will walk a little longer on the sea-shore.

  • They discussed the subject a little longer.

  • To complete this catalogue of special providences we may add that, if Fuller had delayed only a little longer, even Serampore would have been found shut against the missionaries.

  • Since you did not guess, through pardonable ignorance of a certain fact, then, for the pleasure of absolute proof, I withhold my discovery a little longer.

  • You must, however, restrain your natural impatience a little longer, until another night has passed.

  • He stayed a little longer than he had intended, on a slight pressure of invitation from Mr. Brooke, who offered no bait except his own documents on machine-breaking and rick-burning.

  • Hence he must keep his post and bear with Mr. Brooke a little longer.

  • I must enjoy the sunshine a little longer.

  • A little longer, a little longer,"' I repeated in a dolorous tone, and we burst into a laugh.

  • He lay half dozing for a little longer, hoping to recover the adventures.

  • It was so delightful to watch her and keep his secret a little longer.

  • But Holgrave detained her a little longer.

  • Hepzibah wished that he would pass yet more slowly, and befriend her shivering solitude a little longer.

  • She might have held back a little longer; but another circumstance, not yet hinted at, had somewhat hastened her decision.

  • You would have seen other differences had you looked a little longer," said Holgrave, laughing, yet apparently much struck.

  • Stay a little longer," he said to Varenka.

  • The snipe had ceased flying; but Levin resolved to stay a little longer, till Venus, which he saw below a branch of birch, should be above it, and the stars of the Great Bear should be perfectly plain.

  • Levin knew that when he got home he must first of all go to his wife, who was unwell, and that the peasants who had been waiting for three hours to see him could wait a little longer.

  • Wait a little longer in London," she said.

  • In any other case I should have said, 'Stay a little longer, if you please.

  • But the chief manager kept delaying a little longer, and a little longer; though the pilot on board sent to tell him that it was time she was off.

  • So we waited a little longer, during which interval I heard the landlady's daughter sobbing and wailing in the entry; and but for this tender-heartedness there would have been no tears at all.

  • I wish you could postpone it a little longer.

  • Will you use that and trust me a little longer?

  • But let me stay in your debt a little longer, old man.

  • K-R1 R-R5 Here Black could have held out a little longer by defending his KtP: 35.

  • P-R4 R-R3 would only have drawn out the agony a little longer.

  • R-K1 Black could have held out a little longer with B- B3.

  • Just a little longer, I may love thee: we will part, Ere my love grow stronger.

  • Just a little longer, Be a child: then, we will part, Ere this love grow stronger.

  • Just a little longer, Love me: we will pass and part, Ere this love grow stronger.

  • But she was doomed to disappointment for the present, for her papa was seated on the sofa, beside Miss Stevens, talking to her; and so she must wait a little longer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little longer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little ashamed; little basket; little breathlessly; little brothers; little butter; little cayenne; little chance; little clearing; little country; little delay; little dreaming; little earlier; little father; little friend; little girl; little heart; little honey; little note; little older; little patch; little small; little surprized; little thought; little turn; take possession; who knows