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Example sentences for "long narrow"

  • The border is blue, between an inner and outer band of silver.

  • A piece of flat iron is nailed to the end of the bookcase, just above the level of the uppermost shelf (fig.

  • In the Cluniac Priory at Much Wenlock in Shropshire there is a long narrow room on the west side of the south transept, opening to the cloister by three arches, which could hardly have been put to any other purpose.

  • A chain was taken about 12 inches long, more or less, consisting of long narrow links of hammered iron.

  • A long narrow chisel-like celt of this pointed oval section (8 inches) from Aberdeenshire[340] has been figured.

  • A long narrow chisel-like celt, with an oval section, is given in Fig.

  • From that time forth the Solent would become what it is at present, losing its character as an estuary, and assuming that of a long narrow sea.

  • Somewhere southeast of the lake, Hearne spoke of a long narrow lake “entirely surrounded with high land which produces a vast quantity of fir trees, but none of them grow to a great height in those parts.

  • For long stretches it is straight and without current, giving the appearance of a wide, quiet river, or a chain of long narrow lakes.

  • Thus, long narrow ravines, sometimes twenty feet wide, are laid open, and often give access to the waves.

  • Egypt, therefore, he says, like the Red Sea, was once a long narrow bay, and both gulfs were separated by a small neck of land.

  • The valleys of Guasco and Copiapó may both be considered as long narrow islands, separated from the rest of Chile by deserts of rock instead of by salt water.

  • The Uspallata range is separated from the main Cordillera by a long narrow plain or basin, like those so often mentioned in Chile, but higher, being six thousand feet above the sea.

  • In the dim light I could discern what seemed a labyrinth of long narrow passages; traversing which, we arrived at the dungeons.

  • Between them the Corso is seen shooting out in a long narrow line of lofty façades, traversing the entire length of the city from north to south.

  • To travel the canoe on dry land, the axles, each covered with a strong common pillow, are brought under the fore and after portions of the canoe, like the axles of a long narrow carriage.

  • There are two handles, and the whole affair is not unlike a long narrow pair of nutcrackers.

  • The valleys of Guasco and Copiapo may both be considered as long narrow islands, separated from the rest of Chile by deserts of rock instead of by salt water.

  • The Terai is a long narrow strip of territory, extending for three hundred miles along the northern frontier of British India, and is about twenty miles in breadth.

  • Long narrow streets, very fairly paved, lead in all directions; the houses are not so high as those of Benares or Cairo, the streets are broader, and some of them would admit of the passage of a carriage.

  • Returning to the great hall we found an entrance formed by colossal figures leading into a long narrow chamber, about 70 feet by 12, whose walls had partly escaped the general wreck.

  • It is quite possible upon a frame of this kind to weave a long narrow band of any kind.

  • The complete sampler is a long narrow strip of linen, across which run specimen bands of various kinds of work.

  • Either a metal rod or a long narrow piece of wood must now be threaded in and out of the warp-strings and placed in position at the base.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long narrow" 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:
    general reserve; long afore; long and; long boiling; long chalk; long distances; long hair; long inscription; long interval; long list; long moment; long ranges; long reign; long stem; long string; long strip; long talk; long tyme; long visit; long voyages; long way; long while; longer existed; longer have; longer period; military tribune