long weekend
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He had gone for a long weekend to visit his father, who lived in New York with his girlfriend.
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“Nah. Next week for sure. I gotta go to my father’s dump again. My mom’s working the whole long weekend. Can you believe it?”
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“And her math book? She left before I remembered to send the assignments home with her. I want her to have them for the long weekend.”
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“You could do it easy. There’s a quiz on Tuesday on this stuff. Hey, it’s a long weekend, remember … and a test a week from Monday.”
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The long weekend had gone by so slowly.
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