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Example sentences for "take long"

  • It won't take long; she makes her adorers strike a fast pace.

  • She said she was a marcheuse, and I understood that she liked to take long walks.

  • It's a very simple story, however, and won't take long.

  • It won't take long to go over all the water that is seven minutes from here.

  • Only his wife; he needn't take long to think of her.

  • Kadalì ra ug akuy mudahis sa mga ig-ulúran, It won’t take long to iron clothes to wear around the house.

  • Dì siya madúgayng pirma, He doesn’t take long to sign.

  • A; a6] take long things in the two hands and bunch them together.

  • Got to cut the front lawn," he said exuberantly, "but that won't take long.

  • Won't take long if you help me," John hinted gently.

  • This won't take long," said John optimistically.

  • It wouldn't take long if I had a shovel; but without one it will be hard.

  • It wouldn't take long to cut through where the wall is thinnest.

  • It didn't take long for me to get the motor running.

  • It didn't take long for me to put a tablet through a knothole, throw a glass of water out into the yard, and get back into the warm kitchen.

  • In any case, these little mites won't take long.

  • It won't do any harm to let him swell a little now while he's keeping watch; but when the real work begins it won't take long to sit on him.

  • Why, it oughtn't to take long to decide on a feature like this.

  • It won't take long to fix up the Comet, if we all get to work on it.

  • About eight hours, sir, counting our getting under weigh and out of this crowded water, which won't take long, for the tide will soon turn.

  • I've got a block in New York just about in the right place, and it won't take long to build.

  • My business won't take long either, and we'll go together, if you like, and have a little chat.

  • It didn't take long to confirm the news of the strike's extension.

  • It didn’t take long—getting married doesn’t take long, if you go about it the right way.

  • It won’t take long—I can do it before they get here.

  • It won't take long to turn them out," and Mr. Walters started forward in a manner which boded no good for the skulkers.

  • That is exactly what I don't know myself; but it won't take long to explain why we are here.

  • It didn't take long to grab onto the fellows and hustle back.

  • You get forty-odd women hustling for subscriptions at a dollar and a quarter apiece, and it don't take long to have the money mount up.

  • It didn't take long to get and tie them up with the rest.

  • It wouldn't take long to make her fit for towing.

  • Anyhow, it won't take long to git the tent up again.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take 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:
    heat from; take account; take advantage; take along; take any; take counsel; take food; take from the fire and add; take great; take measures for the; take part; take pictures; take possession; take precedence; take steps; take thee; take their; take thou; take wing; take you; take your; taken away from them; taken captive; taken down from the; taken from; taken literally