How to Use longtime in a Sentence

longtime

adjective
  • The longtime goalie coach donned a Meta Quest 2 head set and equipment and went through some of the drills.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Since 1996, Penn was the longtime pollster to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • For the live performance at the Ford, Monk and three of her longtime singers joined the All-Stars to perform some of the recording.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The couples are longtime friends and avid socialites with very strong points of view.
    Josie Howell | , al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Dear Amy: Many of my longtime friends are now into their 80s.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • As Gibson shared the good news with his longtime friend, Vido cut in.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But the California that the two longtime friends are drawn to is not a land of palm trees, blue skies and sunny waves on the beach.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But for nine years, there was no word from the longtime healthcare worker who owned the Zion Avenue house.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Sales have dropped so low that Bud Light lost its longtime perch as the nation's best-selling brew last month.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 9 June 2023
  • The awards are named after Neal Shine, the longtime editor and publisher of the Free Press, who died in 2007.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Mariko recently tied the knot with her longtime beau in August.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The longtime Brookside bar and grill serves food until 2 a.m. every night.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • On Sunday, Berry shared a sweet snapshot of herself and her longtime boyfriend Van Hunt with her arms wrapped around him.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, Patrick Duffy’s longtime Oregon ranch hit the open market for $14 million.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Wood, a longtime correspondent on The Daily Show, is the latest in a long line of celebrity guest hosts on the show.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The Saudi crown prince even had a phone call with the president of Iran, the kingdom’s longtime rival and Hamas’s chief backer.
    Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And Montis, a longtime Haitian employee of the mission group, responded to the home to help.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • The largesse came courtesy of Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire and longtime friend of Thomas’ and his wife.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Getting to work with a longtime friend, Michael Arden is such a joy, and there's so many things about that that make this appealing to me.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 5 June 2024
  • The longtime food truck opened its boozy brunch concept at Hemisfair last year.
    Jj Velasquez, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2023
  • Chance is the only daughter of Diddy and his longtime friend, Sarah Chapman.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Amid the chaos, Silver’s longtime friend Robert Downey Jr. has quietly exited one of the projects.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The group, which will make its live debut this spring, recorded the album with longtime Lamb of God producer Josh Wilbur.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Now, longtime friends, former teammates and Kings fans are teaming up to give something back as Pollard wages the fight of his life.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The longtime coach informed his team of the announcement Saturday night.
    oregonlive, 18 June 2023
  • In his own words, Amezcua remembers his friend and longtime colleague.
    Carlos Amezcua, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
  • The prospect of Elon Musk buying Twitter was looming; the mood on the platform had turned even more sour than usual, and many longtime users were fleeing.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • But my longtime favorite, and the grain whisky that opened my eyes to the entire category, is Nikka’s Coffey Grain from Japan.
    Tony Sachs, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The 195-acre, mixed-use Riverwalk project hails from Hines and longtime land owner the Levi-Cushman family.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
  • Tenant advocates see the remodel exemption as a loophole that lets owners evict longtime tenants in order to raise rents.
    Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

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