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Example sentences for "long interval"

  • In a few days, however, these impressions altogether vanished; nor did they recur till after a long interval.

  • After the death of Abgar, which appears to have taken place at no long interval, his dominions were divided between his son and nephew.

  • On our right the level plain; and beyond it, at a long interval, the lofty ridges which border the Kur on the left bank.

  • This writer, after a long interval, was succeeded by Thucydides and Xenophon, the former of whom carried historical narrative to the highest degree of improvement it ever attained among the States of Greece.

  • Nor (since now after a long interval we are allowed to speak concerning the republic) is it possible for us to be silent about the Martial legion.

  • On this day, O conscript fathers, for the first time after a long interval do we plant our foot and take possession of liberty.

  • For then, after a long interval, the senate was free in such a manner that you too might become free.

  • But those years of exceptional abundance were followed at no long interval by a series of years of scarcity or famine, which brought pestilential sickness of the severest kind.

  • After a long interval, his lips again withdrew.

  • A long interval passed; she was vaguely surprised to see the Doctor still standing in the doorway when she opened her eyes.

  • After a long interval, she raised her head, opened her eyes upon a swaying, unsteady world, and faced her companion, who had silently resumed his seat.

  • After a long interval, Rome again appeared upon the scene.

  • About this period, after a long interval, we again become cognizant of the existence of Waldenses.

  • It might, therefore, be held that the early Baltic glacier was separated by no long interval of time from the succeeding great mer de glace, but may have been merely a stage in the development of the latter.

  • The occurrence of two glacial epochs, separated by a long interval of temperate conditions, has been proved.

  • But after a long interval of rest, the volcano bursts forth again with renewed energy, annihilates one half of the inhabitants, and compels the remainder to emigrate.

  • For rocks of the same kind have sometimes been reproduced in the same district after a long interval of time, whereas there are no facts leading to the opinion that species which have once died out have ever been reproduced.

  • After what seemed a long interval, he sat up and rubbed his eyes, after the manner of one just awakened from the horror of a nightmare.

  • When, after a long interval, the door was opened, a man entered whose dress showed him to be one of Coryon's black-tunicked soldiers.

  • In this position she remained during a long interval of fear, until, at length, convinced that all was quiet, she again ventured forward.

  • After a long interval, the bell that summoned her had been rung.

  • The vessel sailed after a long interval of delay, but he never reappeared on the deck.

  • Perhaps this reticent lady disliked looking back through a long interval of years, or perhaps she had her reasons for leaving Mountjoy's guess at the truth still lost in doubt.

  • After a long interval, in which their discussion rambled over a score of topics, Bayard left.

  • She sat limp in her saddle a long interval, then leaned forward and, face in her horse's mane, gave way to sobbing.

  • She sat so a long interval, suffering stamped on her fine forehead, indicated in the pink and white knots formed from her clenched hands.

  • At length it was employed, after a long interval, in an enlightened age, and at an important conjuncture, to an extent never before known, and for a purpose generally abhorred.

  • This old practice it was now determined, after a long interval, not only to revive but to extend.

  • It would therefore be most unwise to persevere further in that course which was justifiable and necessary when we first met, after a long interval, and found the whole administration one mass of abuses.

  • After a long interval he recovered himself enough to go down to the eunuchs, who were misdoubting his long absence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long interval" 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:
    but while; cellular telephone; long afore; long beard; long chair; long delayed; long distance; long gallery; long handle; long known; long last; long lines; long march; long nose; long rest; long ride; long service; long side; long sigh; long thoughts; longer able; longer knew; longer thought; longtemps que; under them; varied according