as long as

conjunction

1

: provided that

can do as they like as long as they have a B average

2

: inasmuch as, since

as long as you're going, I'll go too

Synonyms

• now
• because
• since
• seeing
• inasmuch as

Examples of as long as in a Sentence

as long as I've got my boots on, I might as well go out and get the firewood

Recent Examples on the Web

For now, the Mariners seem likely to enter the postseason healthy, too, as long as their ever-consistent starter, Bryan Woo, recovers from the right pectoral injury (the team called it minor inflammation) that held him to five innings last Friday. —Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025

The companies expect that the batteries will have a life 10 times as long as existing, market-ready lithium-ion batteries. —Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 24 Sep. 2025

In some cases, they were held for as long as 20 hours in a room at MIA, where they were interrogated by customs agents about their business dealings and wealth, and asked about other prominent members of Haiti’s economic elite. —Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025

Literary adaptations have been cinema’s bread and butter as long as the second medium has existed. —Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for as long as

• has
• jazz
• topaz
• whereas