Word Finder - longer

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Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).

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It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

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Having great duration.

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The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.

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Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.

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Not short; tall.

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Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.

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I'm long in DuPont;  I have a long position in DuPont.

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Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).

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(of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.

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That forehand is long.

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Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

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Over a great distance in space.

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He threw the ball long.

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For a particular duration.

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How long is it until the next bus arrives?

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For a long duration.

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Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.

I could no longer hide my fear.

I thought you needed to sleep longer because you were working so hard getting ready.

She was no longer hungry, and she felt energized, fulfilled.

Grasso no longer hid the knife he carried in his right hand as they moved nearly out of range to a dark, windowless van.

In most parts of the world, women are no longer legally regarded as chattel.

Now it was no longer a possibility.

She met his gaze defiantly for a moment longer, but he made no attempt to argue.

I was surprised to notice the vehicle lent to Howie was no longer parked in front of his door.

His eyes were no longer piercing.

The spidey senses that warned him when a vamp was around calmed until he no longer sensed Jonny.

I can't wait any longer.

Lightning no longer left her for the clouds.

The small car fishtailed around a curve, but she kept up the pace until she no longer saw the man in her rearview mirror.

She wore those half-stockings that were supposed to be hidden by something far longer than what covered her pudgy legs, which were streaked with the stark blue of veins looking like a map of a very congested and curvy area.

The day isn't getting any longer.

Finally Royce could contain himself no longer.

She was almost angry enough with Wynn to wish he'd stayed here just a little longer.

If Martha's no longer with her mother, do you think Fred knows where she is?

They couldn't wait much longer.

He was older, in his mid-thirties, and the light took longer to appear in his eyes than it had the younger man.

Darkyn wore her out enough to where her thoughts no longer spun out of control.

They slopped forward, feet sloshing the muddy floor, no longer trying to avoid the water that oozed in rivulets down the narrow passageway, back toward the entrance, now out of sight behind them.

When Dean entered their bedroom, Cynthia was no longer crying, but furious.

But in spite of their pace, the return trip seemed to take much longer.

The auction crowd could wait a little longer for his chauffeuring gig.

After what seemed even longer than the Dean's first trip to the mine just two days earlier, they emerged into the basin where the valley floor was a sea of wildflowers.

The guests of longer term, the three remaining Dawkinses and Brandon Westlake, were all absent.

Then the body might have been there for much, much longer.

Even his many years absence from visiting Ouray no longer eliminated him as a suspect now that the age of the bones was uncertain.

She'd learn when she returned to a world she no longer controlled.

Her Gabriel had distrusted her – hated her even? – for much longer.

I'm guessing he's no longer missing.

She slowed, hating that she no longer had the heightened senses of a deity.

It was good that Cora had faith in Gabriel when he was losing death dealers who no longer believed in him.

The longer he thought, the more he realized his frustration had nothing to do with his duties as Death.

In the course of three days, the goddess had almost learned to see him as an equal while her human side no longer in denial about her destiny.

She responded to him with raw hunger, no longer timid as she had been when he kissed her the day before.

The worst case scenario – that she died of a tumor – was no longer possible.

But no longer, because she'd been trying to make sure she never lost him.

Is it no longer a matter of discretion?

The longer you let both deny you, the harder it becomes to win.

Gabriel guessed the deity considered his work done and was no longer concerned.

No longer hungry, she began to wonder how many other people she'd faulted over her lifetime.

By the trembling of her body, she wasn't going to be on her feet much longer.

It wasn't like in the old house, where she would have slept cold, got up to a colder house and had to start a fire in an old stove, then wait an hour until she could no longer see her breath.

Well, just write him a note and if we don't make it back before he gets home, it shouldn't be too much longer.

Alex selected a clean towel from the things he had brought to the barn and waited a little longer.

It seemed like a long time, but was probably no longer than fifteen minutes before the mare lunged to her feet, snapping the cord.

With her body no longer active and demanding attention, her mind was free to wonder.

Alex might be alive in body, but he was no longer the man she had married.