How to Use longish in a Sentence

longish

adjective

• She wore a longish coat.
• He had longish black hair.
• So even though the run-time is a longish 2 hours, 48 minutes, the show will move quickly.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Probably be back sometime over the longish weekend with some thoughts on the Fourth.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 June 2017
• There are a few less- memorable courses, and the wait between them can be longish, but overall the service is good and most of the fare is first-rate.
  — New York Eateries, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• For a longish stretch, fans of the Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel had cause for selfish worry.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• Cruz spoke briefly to answer the judge’s questions in the first hearing, wearing a red jail outfit and sporting longish bushy hair and oversize glasses.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• Still, while teens may not be watching on the big screen, many are spending huge periods of time watching YouTuber in sometimes-longish shows.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• And after a longish expansion, the world economy is lacking vigour.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The lines were always longish and slow-moving, and those waiting were often confused as to exactly how the exhibit worked.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 6 June 2017
• And the longish average maturity of its bonds, around seven years, gives it breathing space.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• The jackets and many of the knits had ties or longish pieces of fabric, rather than buttons, to allow the wearer to tuck and tighten and secure the pieces more tightly at their own discretion (like braids!).
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023
• The longish-term option When Airbnb was founded, the nation was just emerging from the Great Recession and in need of bargain accommodations.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• Longtime readers of this blog will remember the relatively longish early post about the cancellation of the Video Games Live concert tour.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2006
• He’s got a scruffy, reddish beard going, and his longish hair sticks out of a baseball cap from Lowden Guitars, a high-end acoustic-guitar manufacturer.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Morels have hollow, white stems and longish, conical caps that have a pockmarked or honeycombed exterior.
  — Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018
• The latest in a longish succession of arena-level dance-music acts who think like pop songwriters — think a more relaxed Avicii, or a smoother Moby — this duo was recently nominated for a pair of Grammy Awards.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• The 60-year-old Dickinson, in gleaming black leather pants, his longish graying hair fighting to stay in an uncooperative ponytail, was also a physical presence.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• There’s something about filling in areas of intersecting longish words and phrases and there’s an aesthetic appeal of using relatively few black squares in symmetric fields of white.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Each has your standard adorable doggy head, a reasonable if not slightly longish torso, a lovely coat, captivating eyes and four preposterously short legs.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Overwhelmingly, stock prices respond over longish periods to two variables, earnings and interest rates.
  — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024