longish
Example Sentences
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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
For Seth Rogen’s character, a woeful carpenter, Moe made a longish mullet modeled on his own father, who worked for a Wisconsin telephone company in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
