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Example sentences for "long engagement"

  • Mrs Croft," cried Mrs Musgrove, unable to let her finish her speech, "there is nothing I so abominate for young people as a long engagement.

  • I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

  • At any rate, said I, it will be better than a long engagement.

  • To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement.

  • He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste.

  • I've always wanted a long engagement in this family, and as there seems to be no chance for it with the ladies, I wish to make the most of Dan's.

  • I see no reason why he shouldn't and I couldn't stand a long engagement; I should break it off.

  • I suppose you look forward to a long engagement?

  • She was quite sure that she could make no immediate reply to that question, whether she was afraid of a long engagement.

  • But a long engagement may be better than none at all.

  • And yet she had not known that she was very much afraid of a long engagement.

  • It was essential to have a good, reliable leading man to help May through such a long engagement.

  • Couldock and his daughter returned later and played a long engagement as stock stars.

  • Madam Scheller proved to be a pleasing and accomplished actress and filled a long engagement at the Salt Lake Theatre.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain destruction; currently vacant; food taken; long continuance; long enough; long handle; long moment; long narrow; long range; long season; long since; long slant; long stick; long stretch; long syllable; long till; long time; long tyme; long vowel; long years; longer afraid; longer existed; longer have; longer necessary; slightly convex; small star