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
Tell short stories longly and long stories shortly.
From The Magic City by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
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
Moreover it was a battle of wits between the newer and weaker roads striving to create and attract business from their more longly established competitors.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland
Fashioned in stone, these gods were dog-headed or longly beaked.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
