How to Use monthslong in a Sentence

monthslong

adjective
  • The decade ended with a monthslong tabloid war in which people around the city chose sides between him and his first wife, Ivana.
    Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • In October, the company launched a monthslong series of price cuts that has lowered the cost of some models by up to 14%.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • The exchange would take place in stages for as long as six weeks, during which Israel would be expected to halt its monthslong incursion in the Gaza Strip.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The results are just the first in what will be a monthslong effort for Trump to secure the GOP nomination a third consecutive time.
    Steve Peoples, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The results have been examined and re-examined, challenged in court and in a monthslong ballot review.
    AZCentral.com, 15 July 2022
  • The 2020 results have been examined and re-examined, challenged in court and in a monthslong ballot review.
    AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The passage of the bills marked the culmination of a monthslong effort by Texas Republicans to contest some of that dominance.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • That’s the biggest announcement to come out a monthslong review of all the tax breaks that Georgia offers to various industries.
    Jeff Amy, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • That's the biggest announcement to come out a monthslong review of all the tax breaks that Georgia offers to various industries.
    Jeff Amy, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But even a monthslong period of higher than normal wind is not a sign of a lasting shift taking place in Anchorage, Lawson said.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • Residents fear the fighting that capped a monthslong political deadlock could explode into a wider war and a return to the peaks of Libya's long-running conflict.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The results represent the first milestone in what will be a monthslong effort by Trump to secure the GOP nomination a third consecutive time.
    Hannah Fingerhut, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The draft of the regulations will now undergo a monthslong public process before it is finalized.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 May 2023
  • Record highs in air and ocean temperatures were set in April, continuing a monthslong trend that's expected to place 2024 among the five warmest years in modern history.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Campbell's departure comes in the waning hours of a monthslong legislative session.
    CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Consumer prices rose 5% last month compared to a year ago, extending a monthslong slowdown of price increases but leaving inflation more than double the target rate of 2%.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Consumer prices rose 5% last month compared to a year ago, extending a monthslong slowdown of price increases, but leaving inflation more than double the target rate of 2%.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 May 2023
  • The monthslong case that revealed streams of proof that Fox hosts had knowingly peddled lies about the 2020 election came to an anticlimactic end on the trial’s opening day, as the two entities chose to settle and stop the case from advancing.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The arrests are the result of a monthslong undercover operation in which the suspects connected with decoy accounts that were set up by the state Department of Justice.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • The activity in early trading Wednesday builds on a monthslong trend in which investors and analysts have shed their gloomy outlooks and piled into bets that the U.S. economy, and stocks, will keep flourishing.
    WSJ, 12 July 2023
  • Consumer prices overall rose 4.9% in April compared to a year ago, extending a monthslong slowdown of price increases, government data showed.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • The arrests were the result of a monthslong undercover operation in which the suspects connected with decoy accounts set up by the state Department of Justice.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
  • The monthslong civil lawsuit, in which Flint residents were suing two consulting firms that did work for the city of Flint, ended in a mistrial in August, when jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Her installation ceremony Sunday caps a monthslong role during which the congregation had the chance to get to know her better, as is tradition.
    Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • But after days of intensive diplomacy in the region, a monthslong effort to end the war in Gaza seems as stuck as ever, as each side clings stubbornly to maximalist demands unacceptable to the other.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 June 2024
  • More than two years after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted city business, Baltimore still has a monthslong backlog in the office that records property sales.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The lawsuit is the latest move in a monthslong effort by Hunter Biden's legal team to aggressively push back against his Republican antagonizers.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The new law aims to prevent criticism of fighters, including those from the Wagner private military company, which has been at the forefront of Russia’s bloody, monthslong effort to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
    Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • As former President Donald Trump ramps up his defenses against a series of criminal charges, a monthslong civil trial that could determine the future of his business empire has reached the crucial endgame.
    Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • There were monthslong concerns about whether other sectors like autos would see higher duties, which rattled market sentiment.
    Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 15 July 2024

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