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Example sentences for "long line"

  • He went like a guilty thing, instead of moving with his usual confident state, the state of a gentleman from a long line of gentlemen.

  • The Carrolls, as far as their manners went, were gentlefolk, and came of a long line of gentlefolk.

  • We are pretty well past the Keltie Glacier which is a vast tumbled mass: there is a long line of ice falls ahead, and I think there is a hard day ahead of us to-morrow among that pressure which must be enormous.

  • Occasionally the mist became so thin that a long line of coast and a great breadth of sea were visible, with the white sails drifting.

  • The chairs, disposed in a long line on the piazza, waiting for guests, were also varnished, as the artist discovered when he sat in one of them and was held fast.

  • Above a long line of ordinary looking clouds, float great white masses, formed of the sulphurous vapor.

  • Then come more hotels, a cluster of cheap shops, and a long line of bath-houses facing a lovely curving beach.

  • There was a long line of booths, where images could be shot at with bird-guns; and when the shots were successful, the images went through astonishing revolutions.

  • Then every one seemed to cheer up when, a couple of hours later, we came in sight of a long line of infantry steadily advancing, and the rocks rang soon afterwards with the men's cheers as they drew up to let us pass.

  • On the extreme horizon there was visible a long line of gleaming, glittering points, which shone and sparkled like a string of diamonds.

  • The floor was formed of black and white marble, set in squares, and the walls were of polished oak, and bore a long line of paintings of the Somerset family, from John of Gaunt downwards.

  • There he married, and spent the rest of his days in rearing tobacco and in teaching the principles of war to a long line of gaunt and slab-sided children.

  • A long line of citizens passed slowly before them, each in turn putting down a roll or bag of coins which was duly noted by the receivers.

  • A diamond had been roughly outlined on it with bags of sand, and a ball-game was in progress, boys playing, but a long line of men watching from the side lines.

  • The Union army was advancing in great force now, its front tipped with a long line of bayonets and the mouths of fifty cannon turned to the pass.

  • Dick's startled gaze beheld a long line of horsemen in gray on their flank and only a few hundred yards away.

  • They were now in the open and face to face on a long line.

  • He saw, indeed, dim fires here and there along a long line, marking where the Confederates now stood, or rather lay.

  • These shelters, a long line of them, are littered thick with empty cartridge cases, hundreds in each; one thinks involuntarily of grouse-driving.

  • But nothing is so conspicuous as a long line of men riding at fifty yards' interval.

  • His large means, inherited from a long line of wealthy ancestors, afforded him opportunities to enjoy life at his pleasure.

  • The hearts of the exhausted men began to fail them--the batteries silent, the infantry short of ammunition, while a long line of blue was making rapid strides towards us in front.

  • They had not long to wait before a long line of blue was seen advancing from the crest of the hill.

  • But just before the sun began dipping behind the mountains on our left, a long line of gray, with glittering bayonets, was seen coming down the slope in our rear.

  • The next morning found us with the southern shore of Lake Erie in sight--a long line of woods, with here and there a cluster of habitations on the shore.

  • Next morning we were coasting the western shore of Lake Michigan, a high bank presenting a long line of forest.

  • We marched over a long line of hills on our west, and in five and a half hours came to some villages where the people sold us food willingly, and behaved altogether in a friendly way.

  • A long line of villagers were just arriving from the south, and we could see at some low hills in that direction the smoke arising from the burning settlements.

  • On leaving the ChibĂ©rasĂ© we passed up over a long line of hills with many villages and gardens, but mostly deserted during the Mazitu raid.

  • A long line of heights on our south points to the valley of Nsama.

  • On the commencement of this waste, drawn up in still array, the sunlight broke on the breastplates of a long line of horsemen, whom the sinuosities of the road had hitherto concealed from the Knight and his party.

  • Rifles were stacked neatly behind the intrenchments, extending in a long line as far as they could see.

  • Hoots, cat-calls, and derisive yells arose along a long line.

  • Yet they utilized their numbers and pursued in a long line.

  • We're scattered along a long line, and General Lee and General Longstreet are some distance from us, but our generals don't seem to be alarmed in the least.

  • Hooker, moreover, was confronted by a long line of earthworks and other intrenchments, extending for twenty miles along the Rappahannock, and defended by the victors of Fredericksburg.

  • A long line of path was travelled over before the Signor Grimaldi and his friend were cloaked, and divers hamlets and cabins were successively passed.

  • We were warned by the soldier who guarded us not to walk in a group and we stole now, beneath a garden-wall, white under the moon, in a long line.

  • Here a row of cottages beneath the very edge of the bank and in the cottage shadow the soldiers were ranged in a long line.

  • Upon an eminence, nearly opposite to their position, the boys could see a long line of the French artillery.

  • Tom made his way towards the spot indicated, where a small group of officers were standing, while a surgeon was examining a long line of wounded laid side by side upon the ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long line" 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:
    decimal fraction; long accustomed; long bones; long chair; long conversation; long day; long flight; long illness; long inscription; long letter; long life; long minute; long pause; long residence; long robe; long room; long rope; long sigh; long silence; long stretch; longer doubted; longer exist; longer needed; longer possible; longer seemed; mechanical energy