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Example sentences for "long lines"

  • Long lines of communication trenches were dug to and fro everywhere.

  • Long lines of communication trenches ran up and down and to and fro, connecting the various lines of trenches, and many of these were dug deep enough and wide enough to give ample cover for mules and horses.

  • I can see far up Marble Canyon to long lines of chocolate-colored cliffs, and above these the Vermilion Cliffs.

  • Long lines of these are seen, of varying thickness, from one or two to twenty or thirty feet, and the spaces between have the same variability.

  • Long lines of jaded cavalry tramped wearily and stiffly, the horses with drooping heads and the riders with listless attitudes and loose seats in their saddles which denoted the very extremity of fatigue and exhaustion.

  • Beyond it long lines of palms hem in the Euphrates, which now winds through the midst of the ancient city.

  • Long lines of chariots, horsemen and warriors, divided into companies according to their arms and their costume, accompanied the king.

  • Long lines of marching men turned out to let us pass.

  • We began to pass men, long lines of them standing in the drenching rain to let us by.

  • It is a land of long lines: long lines of tidal river and gleaming flats, and immense stretches of clover--clover which is a soft green for half the summer, and then a sea of dim blue pink.

  • The blackberried hedges were gone, replaced by long lines of thin firs, marking the boundaries between the fields.

  • Illustration: "Mechanics ran the machines out on the field in long lines.

  • Mechanics ran the machines out on the field in long lines, and the motors woke to motion with startling roars.

  • Long lines of cells had been built into the stone walls, in which hundreds, if not thousands, of political prisoners had spent years of confinement.

  • In going westwards on the upland the country is level and covered with scraggy forest as usual, long lines of low hills or rather ridges of denudation run.

  • Here we could see westwards and northwards the long lines of hills of denudation in Nsama's country, which till lately was densely peopled.

  • Long lines of walls crowned with a notched parapet and strengthened by towers; a few domes and spires above them; clusters of cypress here and there; this was all that was visible of the city.

  • The base of Sultan Dagh was girdled with groves of fruit-trees, stretching out in long lines on the plain, with fields of ripening wheat between.

  • Long lines of ambulances, wagons, coaches, and carts, filled with wounded, filed through the streets.

  • Long lines of ambulances wended into the city, with wounded for the hospitals, already overcrowded.

  • Long lines of men and innumerable wagons were visible in every direction.

  • At three o'clock we were crossing Meadow Bridge; we could see before us and behind us long lines of infantry--Lee's left wing in motion.

  • Long lines of wagons and cannon were driving northward and eastward on every road.

  • I have worked on long lines, and I will say to young men that, when your homes and your schools have done all they can for you, and you begin the work of life, you must take hold with a will and be content to work hard on long lines.

  • Long lines of bath-chairs and motors were on his left, filled with disabled men who had been brought from sanatoria and hospitals in the districts around.

  • Long lines of marines and sailors kept a lane down the pier, and out into the crowd beyond.

  • See the regiments on dress parade; long lines of dark blue, with bayonets that flash brightly in the waning sunlight.

  • But soon after, up rose and opened upon them two long lines of men in blue, with shining muskets, who, hidden behind a ridge, had been lying in wait.

  • The flying flags, playing bands, galloping officers, long lines of our boys in blue, and sharp metallic reports, impress you with something of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long lines" 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:
    fifty yards; long absence; long account; long ages; long continued; long course; long detour; long discourse; long face; long friend; long inscription; long lines; long piece; long pole; long reign; long season; long service; long side; long speech; long talk; long term; longer have; longer loved; longer time; seest thou; this collection