Too long a strain on the interest is invariably fatal, and the thing is to know when to relieve the tension.
Long have its lightnings slept--too long--but now "All earth shall feel the unveiling of this brow!
Too long my dream of bliss believing, I've thought thee all thou wert before; But now--alas!
It is distant some forty to forty-five miles, too long a journey for one day over such roads.
I should think it would be too long a journey for Mr. Meigs--at his time of life.
Every man whose tent-door faces the east, through the tent westwards he goes, for he deems it too long to go round about it.
Each one whose tent door looked to the east, through the tent westwards he went, for that he deemed it too long to go round about it.
It is too long for us to await thee till then, little boy, and by no means shall we wait.
What followed is too long a story to be told here, except in bare epitome.
You have held me too longin prison, wrongfully and without cause.
No mention will be made of it, for the story would be too long to tell.
Too long I have refrained from speech, and now can no longer conceal my object.
Too long we have rested; let us now renew our strife.
That would be too long; for I wish he were already come.
And the King says he has no desire that the tournament shall last too long, and that they can afford to stop at once.
The tenderness following upon excessive hammering in the forge, or of too long an application of the shoe in hot-fitting has also been described as laminitis.
To mention individually those who have given me permission to use their writings would be too long a matter here.
But the catalogue of enormities is too long to be recapitulated in the present address.
If, however, the phrase as marked is too long to be taken in one breath, the conductor should study it carefully for some point in it where another breath may be taken without too greatly marring the continuity of the text.
It is far better to have the audience leaving the auditorium wishing the program had been longer than to have them grumbling because it is too long.
Too long have I lived wildly in wild remoteness, to return to thee without tears!
Too long, perhaps, have I lived in the mountains; too much have I hearkened unto the brooks and trees: now do I speak unto them as unto the goatherds.
Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got the knack of investigating, as the knack of nut-cracking.
Who when departing called out: 'Too long have I sat with lonesomeness; there have I unlearned silence!
Too long have I longed and looked into the distance.
Dick asked, and fearing she would enter into too long an explanation he asked if the manuscript she held in her hand was a play.
My boy,' said Dick, 'don't be afraid of making it too long.
If too long a time passed without news of him, she would grow anxious, might talk, might betray suspicious facts or draw inferences herself.
You ought to have given in sooner, you've kept it up too long.
If a dozen pages of history are assigned, they cannot master the lesson because it is too long to be memorized, and they are not able to select the three or four things of importance with which it is really concerned.
A faded coat, too long in the arms, drooped from his shoulders, and long, loose overalls of gray jeans broke and wrinkled about his slender ankles.
In order to maintain interest, the point of your story must not be too long delayed.
Dish yer youngster gittin' too long-headed fer me; dat he is.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "too long" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
