How to Use long in a Sentence

long

1 of 4 adjective

• The bridge is the longest in the world.
• The team has had a long streak of wins.
• We drove a long distance.
• She finds it hard to sit still for long periods of time.
• They've had a long and happy marriage.
• The whale was 50 feet long.
• The company has a long tradition of serving its customers well.
• A day is 24 hours long.
• He's been in the league a long time.
  — Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• Screens have been around for a long time.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
• The fraud should have stopped a long time ago.
  — Matthew Stolle, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026
• It’s been a long road to get to this point.
  — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 27 June 2026
• The list is long (and full of red and green).
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
• Or go ahead and wear them on a long-haul flight.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
• Stay cool and stylish in this long, striped linen dress.
  — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
• That’s a long grudge that Ben holds.
  — Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
• Swift looked bridal in a long, flowy white skirt of silk.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
• The mom of three adorned a sleek black, long-sleeve dress.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
• Think your packing list is too long?
  — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
• To finish, a long pour of sesame oil.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 May 2026
• Allen corralls a long hit to left field.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
• The essay is long, but worth your time.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
• Lewis tracks down a long hit by Boles for an out.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• Strap in because this will be a long evening.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
• Styling a short-sleeve over a long-sleeve feels grungy and laid-back.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2026
• The best things shine bright, but never long.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
• She's been that person for me for a long time.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026
• Her long, brown hair fell below her hips.
  — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
• It's been a long road, a very long journey.
  — Da Lin, CBS News, 23 May 2026
• Harris prefers the longer of the two sprint races.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026

long

2 of 4 adverb

• They'll have to wait a bit longer.
• We talked all night long.
• The extra food she brought did not last long.
• We had to leave long before we were ready to go.
• That meeting was way too long.
• The mall has long been a popular hangout for teenagers.
• It's been so long since we've seen each other.
• It's been much too long since we've seen each other.
• They have long been devoted friends.
• How long can right whales live?
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
• But that lead didn’t last long.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 17 May 2026
• But that deficit didn’t last long.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
• And red caps no longer stayed on.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
• This deal might not last too long.
  — PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
• But that might not last for much longer.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
• Chrome's next trick will take a bit longer.
  — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
• No one knows how long this war will last.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
• The ride is just long enough to let the nerves set in.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• He's done it all year long in back-to-back years.
  — Megan Armstrong, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
• Moore has long been a lover of sequin.
  — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
• But the deadline was long past.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 28 June 2026
• Dahl struggled for a lot longer.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
• How long will the shutdown last?
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
• First, how long has the patient been ill for?
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
• The cooler air won’t last long.
  — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
• About losing streaks that ran longer than a decade.
  — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• Slow down long enough to show respect for process.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• But [the debate] didn’t last all that long.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
• Football has, in many ways, long been like that.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
• The masking, of course, didn’t last long.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025

long

3 of 4 noun

• No one has drains in this long.
  — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
• No mile-long walks to the gate.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
• There were handoffs on third-and-longs.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
• On the surface, Trump longs for grandeur.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
• Zac longs for more family time.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
• Zac longs for more family time.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
• The protest song longs for history.
  — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
• Length The intense portion of the ride is about one-minute long.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2023
• That doesn’t seem like something that would result in this long of a delay.
  — Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Now, decades later, Maple longs to provide a good life for her son.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
• Yessenia longs to have her own kitchen again, and space for everyone to spread out.
  — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• Sure, the averages were helped by Nvidia's strength, but that's done by longs, not shorts.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
• Tony Pollard had just 19 yards on nine carries with a long of eight.
  — Dallas News, 26 Dec. 2022
• Grindle leads a joyless existence and longs for peace and quiet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
• Plus, the longs were attracted to a once-expensive stock that hadn't gotten this cheap in ages.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
• We were deprived of what every human longs for—a chance to love honestly with mind, body and soul.
  — Donna Lamb, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• Third-and-long favors the defense, so nothing came easy on Tuesday.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• One longs to see a full scene of Candy in action onscreen or in a home video, rather than just snippets.
  — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• Smith has four receptions for 32 yards with a long of 12, and one carry for three yards.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 25 Sep. 2021
• In the present-day storyline, Clare still longs for her mom, who died of cancer at age 45.
  — Matt Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• If demand for longs is stronger, long traders pay the fee to short traders; if sentiment flips bearish, shorts pay longs instead.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Kelly missed the green long, Stricker managed to move it forward to the edge of a greenside bunker.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023
• Gaines found ways to be explosive, running for 9 or more yards on three carries, with a long of 14.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
• Or is there a part of him that longs for the comfort of being the Big Dog in Portland?
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• In an Osorno guesthouse, eight-year-old María longs for her absent parents.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
• James both longs for a family reckoning and does everything in his power to avoid one.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Cunanan has gone 23-for-32 on field goals in his two-year career, with a long of 54 yards.
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
• This tells you that the profit-takers aren’t being super-aggressive and that the longs are staying put.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
• Ruggles went 4-for-4 on field goals with a long of 46 in his most productive day of the season.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2022
• Janson Junk would be a logical option as a long-reliever, as well.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026

long

4 of 4 verb

• As a young man, Podhoretz longed to join them.
  — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
• Since then, many Madrid fans have been longing for him.
  — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• Beck has been longing to have the chance to produce on this stage.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
• Has a heart longing to serve others!
  — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
• For my home-longing heart, there is no other tale.
  — Simon Maghakyan, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
• For months, Bichette longed for a Mets moment.
  — Will Sammon, New York Times, 13 June 2026
• The story tells the tale of a mermaid who longs to join the human world. Bailey, known as half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, was cast in July 2019, with the film marking her biggest role to date after work including a part on Grown-ish.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2023
• Both were born in the capital, yet longed for a slower way of life.
  — Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2025
• So’s work defines a life of longing — and will leave you longing for more.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Instead, her face is searching, longing for her words to have weight.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
• West, clearly still longing for her, explains how things fell apart.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
• Both longed to return to the playing field, even if just for fun and not profit.
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2025
• Natasha's soul longed for something more during her lowest points.
  — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• But neither reunion was the total head-to-head that some fans might have longed for.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• This beautiful boy is longing for love.
  — Journal Staff, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
• The father longed for his son to one day live the American dream.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
• Those touchstones of the past are almost longing for a more analog time.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
• Chelsea, on the other hand, have had a season fans are longing to forget.
  — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 16 May 2026
• And that means that the next generations don’t have to go longing.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
• And that means that the next generations don't have to go longing.
  — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
• But our partner’s longed for smile was unseen behind the marble chill of death.
  — Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
• For five years, Everly had longed for a sibling.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
• Cano had longed to be a father, and to that point, the couple’s efforts to have a child had been fruitless.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• There is a voice within you that is longing to be heard, Sagittarius.
  — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own achievements.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• But Zeus cut these doubles in half, and ever since our souls have longed to reunite with their lost mate.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
• Everything feels considered, shaped by someone who has longed to have a place of her own.
  — Julie Lin, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
• The Bernabeu was heaving, the fans were longing their team back into the game.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• The bishop longs for those who are bereaved or suffering to feel a sense of God’s love there.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• Tiny figures seem too far away for conversation but not far enough to long for one another.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023