longish
Example Sentences
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Walking on a balcony, I turned a corner, and there he was, tall and slender, with soulful brown eyes and a longish mop of brown hair threatening to hide them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
The account of this period of Númenórean history is longish and rather dull, despite the inclusion of a tale of ill-fated love.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Weird, perhaps: Some of the characters are ghosts; there are longish passages of improvised song.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.”
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
