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Example sentences for "long string"

  • There was a long string of carts with nothing apparently in them.

  • About a quarter to eight the Princess arrived with her lady and chamberlain, she was dressed in black, with a long string of pearls.

  • We came away before the end and drew up a little distance from the gate where a long string of carriages was waiting to see the Queen pass.

  • Thirty years ago, it seems, he did a flourishing trade, Sundays particularly, and there would be a long string of people patiently waiting their turn.

  • We rode with a long string of pack-beasts on a good track down the valley of the Lim.

  • The man, pleased with the importance he was gaining, poured out a long string of mysterious noises which resembled no known tongue.

  • It also seemed to disconcert Oahika; for no sooner had I finished speaking than he began to shout a long string of further directions, to which the canoe men replied from time to time by waving their hands.

  • As you buy them of the native fish-boy, at the rate of a cent a piece, it takes a long string to make a respectable meal for a man with a mountain appetite.

  • After brushing through the weeds and briers and climbing a rambling, rail fence, we came out on the road beside one of our friends and a small boy, who appeared to be striking a bargain over a long string of trout.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long string" 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:
    got any; long afterward; long ages; long ago; long cord; long enough; long history; long lines; long neck; long ranges; long rest; long side; long silence; long speech; long strip; long term; long thoughts; long trail; long way; long while; longer able; longer existed; longer knew; longer know; longer young; resting upon