long
adjective
having considerable linear extent in space.
longly
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a word derived from
long.
Example Sentences
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And in the Folio-only plays there are several very rare words that again are familiar to Florio: "longly", "mothy", "queasines", "roynish".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
The noisy tongue of a hollow-sounding bell roused not the bark of slumbering hound, but had all the desolation to itself, and echoed loudly and longly, then slowly, stroke by stroke, through the deserted corridors.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
Tell short stories longly and long stories shortly.
From The Magic City by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
Once only, and that at their last interview her eyes looked longly in his.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The individual retook the box, it examined of new longly, and it rendered to Smiley in saying with an air deliberate: 'Eh bien!
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
