longish
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of longish
Example Sentences
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This steadiness breaks from the long or longish gaps between wins for most three-timers, and could …
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
The novel was turned into a mini-series for French television in 1966, but the breathless sprawl of a longish feature film may serve it better.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
To show what I mean, let me quote a longish paragraph from her latest book, “Esmond and Ilia,” a double portrait of her parents during the first years of their marriage.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022
The man was, I don’t know, thirty- something, with longish salt-and-pepper hair and a brown jacket over a black T-shirt.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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