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Example sentences for "long moment"

  • For a long moment, Bunny stood fast on the field, while the others of the squad drifted toward the dressing room.

  • For a long moment, the little group stared in stunned bewilderment.

  • For a long moment, he stood just beyond the threshold, breathing hard and trying to still the mad thumping of his heart.

  • He looked at him a long moment, and the boyish triumph, suppressed too long, broke out with the memory of Fontaine's visit.

  • She moved from him, standing, with head slightly down, staring at him silently for a long moment.

  • She turned, her glance rested on his a long moment, she started as though to say something, stopped and turned hurriedly away, but brief as the moment had been, a feeling of meltable content came over him.

  • For a long moment he held her thus, lip to lip, then all at once he set her down on her feet.

  • Then, after scratching his head a long moment in thought, he set out in the direction of the general store and a bottle of vino.

  • They walked to the mare, and Franke gazed a long moment in silence.

  • She regarded him a long moment coldly, then was forced to smile.

  • After a long moment he left the team, walking out into the middle of the street, and strained his eyes in both directions.

  • He paused as he gazed into the rain for a long moment.

  • After a long moment he turned back and examined Winston.

  • He stood a long moment, dramatically surveying the low-lying hills of Barbados, and then Captain Johan Ruyters began lowering himself down the swaying rope ladder.

  • What I wanted was to hear the reassuring tones of human voices, and I found myself listening for these with suspended breath and straining ears; but for a long moment I heard nothing at all.

  • Harland sat for a long moment in silent thought.

  • For a long moment I looked at them while memory stirred in me and then awoke.

  • Mrs. Kildair rose as though reluctantly, motioning him to wait, and, going to her room, returned after a long moment with an address on a slip of paper.

  • When Beecher had finished, Gunther remained a long moment immersed in reflection.

  • A long moment after he had pressed a second time upon the bell, the door was opened by Rita Kildair herself, who drew back in evident astonishment.

  • For a long, long moment, there was silence.

  • The eyes of young Woodbury narrowed and the two stood considering each other gravely for a long moment.

  • Once a twig snapped under foot, and after that he remained motionless through a long moment, shrinking against the trunk of a tree and scanning the forest anxiously in all directions.

  • When he entered the car he stood eying his seat for a long moment like a dog choosing the softest place on the floor before it lies down.

  • It was a long moment before he could speak, and when his hands were lowered, Glendin winced at what he saw in the other's face.

  • Lionel looked at him for a long moment in silence, sitting up a little.

  • He considered her for a long moment; then he laughed.

  • For a long moment he stood looking at her, bewildered, disgusted.

  • Ramon sat for a long moment looking at it, tremulous with a great anticipation.

  • The two impolite ones sat silent for a long moment.

  • For a long moment he strained them both to his breast, then, the woman's kiss still hot upon his lips, ran quickly up the path and joined his picked troop of scouts.

  • Then he took her perfect face between his palms, and for a long moment studied it.

  • And though for a long moment no word was spoken, while the man and woman stood looking at each other like two children in some dread and unfamiliar attic, an understanding leaped between them.

  • For a long moment he lay perfectly still and looked into my eyes and I saw a wonder grow in his that spread all over his whole face.

  • There was a long moment's silence, then Jerry turned his head and smiled reassuringly.

  • For a long moment he breathed heavily, his gaze on the face of the boy he so loved.

  • For a long moment Mary's rosebud cheek pressed the thin wan one she so loved, then she slipped away.

  • For a long moment he stared down at the rug upon which they sat, as though deep in contemplation.

  • Homer Crawford looked at him for a long moment.

  • There was a long moment of silence, unbroken by any of the others.

  • His voice was unexpectedly soft but he continued to weigh Crag for a long moment before he picked up his cap and turned toward the door.

  • They looked at the screen for a long moment.

  • Adam," the Colonel hesitated a long moment, "does the name Pickering mean anything to you?

  • He studied the message for a long moment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long moment" 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:
    beaten separately; just take; long absence; long account; long afore; long after; long afterwards; long ages; long corridor; long cruise; long distances; long journey; long life; long line; long lines; long ranges; long siege; long talk; long thin; long trail; longer doubted; longer existed; longer period; longer possible; longitudinal section; such was