How to Use long-form in a Sentence

long-form

adjective
  • As a piece of music, then a song, then more songs, then a 30-minute long-form film.
    Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
  • But To Dye For is her first long-form dive into the topic.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • That’s what this show and any of these long-form shows can do really well.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Here, then, are a few of my recent long-form favorites — enjoy the game of whatdunnit.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Camerota, who had been anchoring CNN’s late evenings in recent months, has been moved to work on long-form projects.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
  • An era of long-form prestige dramatic television is dead, and it’s been dead for a while now.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • The show is a long-form YouTube series that is a blend of sport, fashion, lifestyle and culture, centered around the biggest stars of women’s sport.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Conversely, clickbait ads, long-form ads, and disruptive ads will be tuned out in a blink.
    Mitch Duckler, Fortune, 23 May 2024
  • And some of those consumers have kind of graduated from social media games to more long-form games as well.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • The long-form magazine writer needs to have those narrative skills.
    John J. Lennon, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Runway, which can create videos and images based on prompts, does not produce long-form content yet and its videos are not meant to be used in TV shows or movies.
    Tim Baysinger, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
  • No, of course Sadie is the most like me because the type of journalism she’s drawn to is probably the type I’m drawn to: long-form narrative nonfiction.
    Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Lovers of long-form literary criticism have a little less to lament today.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • This will be the fifth installment in the eight-part true crime series built on long-form investigative journalism.
    Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2024
  • This will be the fourth installment in the eight-part true crime series built on long-form investigative journalism.
    Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
  • He’s made commercials, worked in live-action film and animation, long-form and short, and has been known to don multiple hats on each set.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
  • With the nature of YouTube’s long-form, often personable content, viewers tend to settle in to watch a video that may be as long as an episode of television.
    Time, 31 July 2023
  • The episode will be available Wednesday and includes what the show's promoters describe as a long-form interview between Biden and O'Brien.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
  • One-off workshops and classes are offered, teaching improv basics and long-form style.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
  • If being able to place your long-form film theatrically is a key piece of your financing package, there’s trouble out there.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But long-form game recaps are easier to manage than live commentary, Brooks said.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Magazines have dedicated long-form features to the subject, and a 2005 book took a deep dive into his liaisons.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 11 July 2024
  • From here, Wilken will review the long-form settlement and decide whether to grant preliminary approval.
    Jesse Dougherty, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Arrayed in pithy slogans and long-form prose, her installation is by turns critical and spritely.
    Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Many of her long-form interactions with the media have been with friendly interviewers.
    Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • For her, episodic television, where you’re called to follow a character through this kind of long-form storytelling, can be quite a grueling process.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • These 405 video transcripts represent nearly every long-form video available on the channel.
    Tim Marchman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Anderson Cooper is returning to long-form journalism with a new CNN show.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There’s never been a better long-form tool for exploring complex ideas than these rectangular objects made of thin wood slices (or imaginary bleeps and bloops on a Kindle).
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Pixar's first-ever long-form TV series, Win or Lose, was originally set to feature a transgender character whose gender identity was directly addressed — but that storyline has since been dropped.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024

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