take long

phrase

: to require a large amount of time

It won't take long to make dinner.

This is taking longer than I thought (it would).

Hurry up. You're taking too long.

Examples of take long in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 2026 Pathfinder's cabin feels like it's made for large families or groups of passengers who regularly take long drives. — Charles Singh, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Throw in a solid 16GB of RAM and a generous 1TB SSD, and this computer ensures loading is snappy and that dredging up files from deep in storage doesn’t take long at all. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026

During the Warriors’ second matchup of the California Classic at Chase Center, the team’s first round pick did not take long to make his impact on that side of the floor in Golden State’s 98-69 rout of San Antonio. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 6 July 2026

In the sanitized and alienating new surrounds, with the camaraderie of the early Hyperion days but a faint memory, long-simmering discontent about working conditions wouldn’t take long to boil over. — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for take long

• evensong
• livelong
• overlong
• vietcong
• agung
• along
• belong
• birdsong
• furlong
• headlong
• headstrong
• lifelong