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Example sentences for "long after"

  • Long after he joined his father in business, he delighted to revert to his classical favourites.

  • Long after the ’45 a Highlandman would “thank God that he had not a drop of Lowland blood in his veins.

  • He stood, long after I had ceased to read, still looking at me.

  • Long after it was dark I sat there, wondering whether anybody else would come.

  • I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

  • Within a mile of Loughborough is a spot of ground, long after known as the Cabbin Lees, whereon many of the inhabitants "prudently built themselves huts and encamped to avoid the infection[974].

  • He thought it a great piece of luck that he should come upon it by chance, and so long after he had forgotten about it that he was surprised to recognize it for the spectacle he had often promised himself the pleasure of seeing.

  • Long after, when Hastings was ruling the immense population of British India, the old philosopher wrote to him, and referred in the most courtly terms, though with great dignity, to their short but agreeable intercourse.

  • The present writer, however, is assured that at the Chancery bar, long after all juniors were allowed to carry bags, etiquette forbade them to adopt bags of the same color as those carried by their leaders.

  • Long after 'moots' had fallen into disuse, their influence in this respect was visible in the readiness of wigged veterans to extend a kindly and useful patronage to students.

  • To Friedrich's very great astonishment, and to his considerable disadvantage, long after!

  • Long after, he paid a grateful tribute to De Morgan and his great work, in the Presidential Address to the British Association at its Edinburgh Meeting in 1870.

  • Long after, in 1879, he confessed that 'Alfred always from the beginning took a grip at the right side of every question'.

  • Long after, in fact till the day when the district was rebuilt and changed out of knowledge, he owned that he could not bear to revisit the scene; so painful were his recollections, so vivid his sense of degradation.

  • As winter came on she used to sit up before her grate fire long, long after we were asleep in our beds.

  • Long after sunset, she got clear of her assailants, and, with all her scuppers spouting blood, made for the coast of Normandy.

  • Heinsius, long after, used to relate a conversation which took place at this time between William and the Prince of Vaudemont, one of the ablest commanders in the Dutch service.

  • I sat thinking of it long after he had ascended to the clouds in a large watch-case, and still I could not make it out.

  • If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long after my broken heart is dust pray do it!

  • Long after I ought to have heard it, and long after I had fancied I heard it and found it but a fancy, all was still.

  • The Doctor joined us long after it was dark and reported that he had found plenty of water all along the bed of the river as far as he had proceeded, which was about ten miles higher, in a direct line.

  • The density of the scrubs had obliged me to make some detours to the left, so that I did not reach the Bogan till long after it was quite dark.

  • My ride along the mountain road presented no object worth describing; but I have frequently found that the most dreary road ceases to appear monotonous or long after we have acquired a knowledge of the adjacent country.

  • Their suspense did not last very long after this.

  • They talked about the hero, long after he was gone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long after" 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:
    forget the; long accustomed; long bones; long engagement; long friend; long hair; long hill; long knife; long line; long poem; long ride; long series; long since; long stretch; long till; long voyages; long white; longer any; longer believe; longer doubted; longer existed; longer extant; longer love; longer necessary; longer stay; longer the