adverb
Etymology
Origin of longways
Example Sentences
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He dresses casually for work - chinos, checked shirts - and in his back pocket is almost always a sheet of white paper, folded longways, with a list of patients he’ll see that day.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2017
He dresses casually for work — chinos, checked shirts — and in his back pocket is almost always a sheet of white paper, folded longways, with a list of patients he’ll see that day.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
Dances would take place in longways sets, facing your partner in a long line, and the highest-ranking person in the room - probably Mr Darcy - would have danced nearest to the orchestra.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
We fell some of the big trees and split the logs longways into planks, making clapboards.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
There are very fine slices on the back of the leg: turn it up, and cut the broad end, not in the direction you did the other side, but longways.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
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