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Example sentences for "rather long"

  • The eggs are five or six in number, pure white, and of a rather long shape.

  • The flowers are small, and produced in rather long sprays, which are numerous, so that little else than flowers can be seen for two or three weeks.

  • The flowers are arranged in fine clusters on a scape more than a foot high, each flower having a rather long, wiry, and gracefully bending pedicel; all of them spring from one centre.

  • Next to the skin on the feet and legs the men wear stockings of deerskin, usually of soft, rather long-haired skin, with the hair in.

  • Only two types are to be recognized among them, the long-pointed oval with a short tang, and the broad leaf-shaped head with a rather long tang, which appears to be the commoner form.

  • The men and boys wear their hair combed down straight over the forehead and cut off square across in front, but hanging in rather long locks on the sides, so as to cover the ears.

  • The stem is rather long, and slender, cylindrical stuffed, somewhat bulbous at the base, commonly whitish but at times bears yellow stains toward the base, tapering toward the cap.

  • The stem is rather long, tapering toward the apex, generally enlarged in the middle or near the base, hollow.

  • The stem is slender, brittle, rather long, stuffed or hollow, glabrous, colored like the pileus or a little paler.

  • The strangers were on foot; the Scalper would not enter the litter, and even insisted on it being left behind, declaring that he did not want it, and cutting a rather long branch, he converted it into a staff.

  • FEET--Like those of the Deerhound, rather long.

  • FORE-LEGS--Rather long, well set under the dog, possessing a fair amount of bone.

  • NECK--Rather long, very strong and muscular, well arched, without dewlap and loose skin about the throat.

  • The =stem= is rather long, proportionately more so than in the granulated boletus.

  • They may be sessile, that is, the cup rests immediately on the ground or wood, or leaves, or they may possess a short, or rather long stalk.

  • The poet of Solitudes and of Justice, wrote on his part, as follows: After a rather long wait, an architect's stool came marching up all alone toward me.

  • Of course, after the rites of mourning have been accomplished, it is thought to go to the land of souls, but before this it remains about the tomb for a rather long time.

  • In the former case, they are parts of one undivided rite; here, they take place at different times, and may even be separated by a rather long interval.

  • If you also rub the other end of the needle on the other pole of the stone, the needle will perform its functions more steadily, especially if it be rather long.

  • Feet normal, rather long; one of the lower digitules is larger than the other.

  • The abdominal spike is rather long, and springs from a large tubercle.

  • The abdominal spike, or sheath of the penis, is rather long, and the tubercle at its base is large.

  • Spiny hairs, usually three in number, of which one is rather long, close to the spiracles, in the Lecanidinæ.

  • After a rather long discussion, the pirates started again, and stopped at the very foot of the walls.

  • There was a rather long silence, during which the hunter smoked the calumet which had been eagerly offered him.

  • After a rather long race, they stopped to hold counsel, out of range of the firearms.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rather long" 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:
    appellate jurisdiction; more time; often irregular; rather curious; rather deep; rather difficult; rather does; rather fancy; rather high; rather narrow; rather nice; rather obtuse; rather remarkable; rather short; rather slender; rather small; rather the; rather thick; rather thin; rather think; rather tough; rather wide; regards them; said park; scrap metal; this class