at length

How To Use at length In A Sentence

• There was a series of _interregna_ this year owing to partisan conflicts, lasting till July, and when the consuls were at length appointed, they failed to hold the elections for B.C. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
• Let's face it, women have gone to great lengths over the centuries, to keep their beauty techniques under wraps.
• Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• I quote it at length, with O'Reilly's rather selective quotation in boldface.
• And to what lengths will the opposing forces go to protect those interests? Times, Sunday Times
• At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
• At length one noticed the fact, and another; and then it became the general topic of conversation in the group upon the bridge, where Ethelberta, her hair getting frizzed and her cheeks carnationed by the wind, sat upon a camp-stool looking towards the prow. The Hand of Ethelberta
• We go to great lengths to make seemingly easy connections with an audience.
• The issue of this was that they did not keep God's covenant, and so the entail was at length cut off, and the sceptre departed from Judah by degrees. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata