livelong
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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
They won’t talk about the bad things in front of my sisters, but me I can listen all the livelong day while I’m getting me a banana in the kitchen house and peeling it.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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