livelong

Example Sentences

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Detectives now knew the identity and the location of the man behind the handle "livelong" on EncroChat.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

How dreary to be somebody / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022

After this surgery, 40 percent of patients have a serious postoperative complication, 50 percent have livelong digestive problems, and 10 percent develop diabetes.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2022

Suffice it to say that it doesn’t exactly boost morale to be greeted by an endless string of indignant, agonised, horror-movie-outtake variations on “How did you get this number?” all the livelong day.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2019

“The bare minimum, for my children,” she’d declare under her breath, all the livelong day.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver