I can see her now as she sauntered across the campus, in slow, longish strides, and the would-be graceful little spring she gave when her feet touched the ground, and her head set conveniently forward on her shoulders.
They had supper alone in a longish room, at a little table spread with a coloured cloth.
He had a pale, longish face, with thin lips, which might indicate either narrow prejudice or a fanatic tenacity.
I had a longish Letter from Donne, who spoke of himself as well enough, only living by strict Rule in Diet, Exercise, etc.
I had a longish letter from Donne himself some while ago; indicating, I thought, some debility of Mind and Body.
It is only when a friend is going on a longish journey, and will be absent for a longish time, that we turn up at the railway station.
The author seldom makes any reflections at all; and his descriptions, with, of course, some famous exceptions, are little more than longish stage directions.
The most interesting thing in it is a longish account by Jacques of his association with a travelling quack and fortune-teller, which at once reminds one of Japhet in Search of a Father.
After that, with God's help, I propose, for a longish period, to do nothing but short lengths.
I see you are drawing a longish bow in the Cosmopolitan--but I only read you when I can sit down to a continuous feast and all the courses.
We have a longish wait, but there's lots to look at, still new to me.
After lunch to the palace--a longishdrive inland from the river.
Away they went, running steadily at a pace of rather better than seven miles an hour, which, under all the circumstances, and seeing that they were moving through longish grass, was excellent going.
They have longish bills, and, seizing the bee deftly across the body, give it a sharp squeeze and swallow it.
You had better not ask me to," he answered, "for it is a longish one.
Oh, certainly; but it is a longish story and a very strange one; so fill up your glass again, and light another cigar, while I try to reel it off.
A pasty-faced, very calm young man, with longish hair, came in and joined in the discussion at the center table.
Take the trouble to read the following longish extract from the fifth edition of the above, and please not to omit the leash of ballads wherewith it ends.
From here a longish march of 18 miles up the valley of the Bhong-chu brought us to Kyishong--a pretty little village on the banks of the river.
His adam's-apple, at such moments, jumped about in a longish slack wrinkled skinny neck which was like the neck of a turkey.
As he was a short, fattish, ancient, strangely soggy creature and as his longish black suit was somewhat too big for him, he executed a series of profound efforts in extinguishing the candles.
Antennæ of nine joints, the first short and thick, the remainder long and nearly equal; each joint after the first has many nodosities, from which spring longish hairs.
Abdomen ending in a minutely-serrated edge, with several small simple lobes, between which are longish spiny hairs.
Abdominal spike shortish, broad: at each side of the base a tubercle bearing a pair of longish setæ enclosed in a long filament of white cotton.
Abdominal spike short, with two longish setæ on each side, each pair of which are covered with cotton which is produced into a long white conspicuous cauda.
Abdominal spike short, thick, and accompanied by a curved appendage; at each side a tubercle bearing longish setæ.
After dinner wrote one or two letters including longish one of literary advice to Karl Walter.
These involutions rapidly grow in length, and soon form longish tubes, opening at the surface by pores situated not far from the posterior end of the blastoderm.
There ought above all to be something more or less certain, I mean one ought--ought at least to be certain that I shall remain in the same place for a longish time.
His elder brother Felician had chosen to dine out with friends for the first time after a longish interval.
Underside of the body and legs dark green, the former covered with ash-grey pubescence, or ratherlongish soft hairs.
The taxidermist from Tangier, the longish packing-cases, the square boxes--Ralph Warriner and old man Fournier were running guns and ammunition into Morocco!
As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longishwing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.
They'd had a longish day and a fast ride before they got to Eugowra, just enough to eat to keep them from starving, with a drink of water.
Dad and I had our tea together pretty comfortable, and had a longish talk.
We should want to spell the horses and make 'em up a bit, as it was a longish drive over rough country to get there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
