How to Use long since in a Sentence

long since

adverb

• 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
• The juice stains are long since gone; the vats are now the color of brown sand.
  — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
• In much of the West, that window has long since passed.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• The project is over and funding has long since been used.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2018
• That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
  — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The edge of the star was traced with gold glitter, most of it long since rubbed away.
  — Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The dirt around me had long since soaked up the liquid that had been in my body.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• Brackish, like the oceans that have long since dried up!
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• But nearly all the state’s mills have long since closed.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• The stamping has long since died down — at least out loud.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
• Mack The Knife was a huge hit in 1959 and and has long since become a standard.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Many of these projects are doomed attempts to plumb a well that’s long since run dry.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• The delta that Leopold saw has long since dried up and disappeared.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• Most of the heavyweights had long since advanced to the knockout rounds.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• The mutant virus had long since gained a foothold and spread widely.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
• Sadly, the shining eyes of that era have long since dimmed.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• But Trump’s team had long since grown numb to such critiques.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• By now, his movie has long since succumbed to its own brio.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• All signs of the Monterey Park massacre have long since been cleared away.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• The time has long since passed for people to slow their roll about Muti.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 26 May 2020
• Edwin had long since lost count of the number of birds that passed through his hands.
  — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• But the time for studying this issue has long since passed.
  — Edward J. Markey and Mondaire Jones, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• Brown’s book, The Last of the Hill Farms, chronicles a way of life long since vanished.
  — Richard Brown, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
• The coal industry in the area has long since collapsed.
  — Ackerman + Gruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020
• That factory, as well as one in Texas, has long since shut down.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
• Any parts of the hull that weren't quickly buried by silt have long since decomposed in the water.
  — ArsTechnica, 24 June 2025