How to Use long since in a Sentence
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The felony charge was dropped Feb. 15, but by then the Longhorns had long since moved on.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Mar. 2023
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The juice stains are long since gone; the vats are now the color of brown sand.
—Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
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In much of the West, that window has long since passed.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
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The project is over and funding has long since been used.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2018
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That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
—Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
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The edge of the star was traced with gold glitter, most of it long since rubbed away.
—Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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The two teachers both began their tenures in the mid-'60s and have long since left the school.
—Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2019
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The dirt around me had long since soaked up the liquid that had been in my body.
—Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
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Brackish, like the oceans that have long since dried up!
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2024
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But nearly all the state’s mills have long since closed.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
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The stamping has long since died down — at least out loud.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
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Mack The Knife was a huge hit in 1959 and and has long since become a standard.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
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By then, May had already been on the loose for 3 1/2 years, and the trail to catch him had long since gone cold.
—Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
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Many of these projects are doomed attempts to plumb a well that’s long since run dry.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
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The delta that Leopold saw has long since dried up and disappeared.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
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Most of the heavyweights had long since advanced to the knockout rounds.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
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The mutant virus had long since gained a foothold and spread widely.
—Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
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Sadly, the shining eyes of that era have long since dimmed.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
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But Trump’s team had long since grown numb to such critiques.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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By now, his movie has long since succumbed to its own brio.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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There are bleachers set up along the parade route but the seats have long since sold out.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
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And it's been too long since the Tigers possessed a true power threat in the lineup.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2021
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All signs of the Monterey Park massacre have long since been cleared away.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
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The time has long since passed for people to slow their roll about Muti.
—Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 26 May 2020
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But the time for studying this issue has long since passed.
—Edward J. Markey and Mondaire Jones, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
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Brown’s book, The Last of the Hill Farms, chronicles a way of life long since vanished.
—Richard Brown, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
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The coal industry in the area has long since collapsed.
—Ackerman + Gruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020
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Yes, there was that miracle in 1966 but the game had long since passed them by.
—Bill Saporito, Time, 9 July 2021
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This is a team that has lost a season-high five straight games and scored three runs while doing it, the fewest any Padres team has scored in a stretch that long since 1972.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025
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His hair hasn’t been this long since, what, his reality TV show days?
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
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