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Example sentences for "long spell"

  • Since then Kingston has enjoyed a long spell of peace and security, but it has lost the distinction that belonged to it in those days of unrest, retaining but very few survivals of the past.

  • But he had a long spell of fever three year after we was married and he's never been good for much since.

  • Her and me set and whispered together for a long spell.

  • No, I ain't spoke to her about it, though it's been on my mind for a long spell.

  • Tain't to be expected she'll last a long spell, at her age.

  • The Professor seems tireless; all day he would not take any rest, though he made me sleep for a long spell.

  • When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.

  • I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky.

  • The news of this disaster and of the new horror reached the troops in reserve, who had been resting in the rear after a long spell.

  • In September they relieved the Guards and cavalry at Loos; in December they moved on to Givenchy, and in February they began a long spell at the Hohenzollern.

  • He hadn't been out in the sunshine and the air for a long spell, and it made his head swimmy at fust.

  • One on 'em told her how it had lost all its little berries itself, a long spell back, and how it had some ways stood it and got over it.

  • All day he would not take any rest, though he made me sleep for a long spell.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long spell" 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:
    and went; appointed time; ever since; long account; long article; long continued; long corridor; long cruise; long drive; long engagement; long hair; long known; long life; long line; long list; long look; long poem; long pole; long struggle; long thoughts; long year; long years; longer exist; longer have; longer seemed; longer thought