livelong

Example Sentences

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If we had wind chimes, it would’ve been a Lollapalooza monsoon of surly zephyrs all the livelong night.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 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

For once, my sisters and I got excused from spending the whole livelong morning playing Ding Dong Schoolhouse with Mother.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver