How To Use Longish In A Sentence
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They had little tigerish stripes on them, and distinctly longish beaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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His detailed sculpture reveals a Caucasian, perhaps Hispanic, boy with "longish" dark hair with a "distinctive" overbite, which may identify him.
ABC News: ABCNews
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This is fairly longish, which is why I'm posting it here and not there.
Write Porn
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Its "longish denouement" is "corny and contrived, but we seize on it with relief - as we seize on the Mahleresque romanticism of Gabriel Yared's score.
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul.
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There was a longish pause.
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My husband and I wear shorts (longish shorts, I grant you) in hot weather, capris in warm weather (just me ... he's still in his shorts), and jeans in the winter.
CLOTHES - what's hot and what's not in Mexico
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She's about my age, with longish hair.
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The text is a decent size; leading satisfactory; and it's longish - nearly 400 pages - but not too long.
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So now, all you lucky people whose names I ordered worked into a rather longish piece of boilerplate latin vocative verse can now share in the tranquil blessings of soft breezes in forested glades, mostly free of singing shrapnel and the deep digestive grunt of artillery.
Archive 2007-06-01
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He looked the part too, that artsy, political sort of look, longish hair, dress shirt, olive army jacket, flip-flop sandals.
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Paley, and the naked _prudentialism_ of his system, it is true that in a longish note Paley disclaims that consequence.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
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His eyes were slate gray, and his hair, cinnamon-colored and longish, hung straight down to his shoulders, tucked back now behind his ears.
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There is a longish cadenza that is well-integrated into the movement's thematic structure.
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The longish story short is that Sensation is about parasitic nematodes in the form of oviposited wasp eggs spreading revolutionary politics; the novel is told from the POV of a species of fairly conservative spider with a form of collective intelligence.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Reverend Jenkins was tall, rubicund, big-boned yet fragile-looking, with a full shock of longish white hair topping the bill.
Shortcut Man
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They look like crude, longish pine cones, with bracts clearly recognizable as modified leaves.
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The longish wheelbase and wide track are good starting points, providing a very stable base which is complemented by the fully independent suspension and a very precise rack-and-pinion steering system.
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And there is the longish face; and the rather thin, stuck-out moustache, shewing both lips which pout a bit; and there is the nearly black hair; and there is the rather visible paunch; and there is, oh good Heaven, the neat pink cravat -- ah, it must have been _that -- the cravat_ -- that made me burst out into laughter so loud, mocking, and uncontrollable the moment my eye rested there!
The Purple Cloud
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Must have longish, goodish legs - and be hot.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a longish nose that comes to a point at the end and a delicate, expressive mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
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No driver should think of trying it without taking the kind of gear experienced hikers would pack for a longish trip into the mountains.
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He is a man with a serious demeanour, an upright carriage and a longish face.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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The riding position feels totally natural and is one that you could easily adopt for a longish trip.
The Sun
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Gass followed up with a collection of short stories calledIn the Heart of the Heart of the Country, which included a longish story called "The Pedersen Kid," a story which he'd had a hell of a time getting published (John Gardner finally published it in a small magazine called MSS, now defunct) and which Raymond Carver, who you've heard of, couldn't make any sense of when he was learning the trade with Gardner.
What's Eating William Gass?
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Of the well-known green species of papilio, with longish tails and blue or green spots on the hindwing, there are four species, of which one is European.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
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They participated in the stabbing, holding assegais in one hand and "longish" guns in the other.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Dressed in khaki trousers, blue T-shirt, trainers, his hair longish, with wolfish grey streaks, he has the slightly matt affectlessness of the off-duty comedian, speaking in mild sentences from which extreme judgments have been carefully excised.
Ben Stiller: 'I never talk to my shrink about comedy'
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Jack Gallagher's The Persistence of Memory (In Memoriam Brian Israel) is a longish piece with a concertante cello part, excellently played by Bogdana Peneva.
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If the terrain complies with an offer of a longish stretch without another set of competing over takers and tailgaters hurtling our way in the other direction, I ease out of this dilemma by slowing down sufficiently for the exchange to take place, first place for second.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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He dripped water from off the hem of his pants, the bottom of his longish trench coat and the long hair that lay straggly on his back.
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Remove the skin from the chicken and slice the flesh into longish pieces where possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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We shall examine an extract from conversational discourse containing a longish paratone which illustrates the features just described.
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Logurr, Siluridae, 3 to 4 faint punctulate longish lines.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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He had longish brown hair and looked like he hadn't had a shave in weeks.
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Thankfully there is a lot of good stuff on the market and, if you are serious about your fishing and intend to fish lots of longish sessions, then look to either floatation or fully thermal suits.
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The most likely explanation for Harry's disappearance was that he had slipped out of the gate when I was wheeling my bike into the garden after a longish lunch in town.
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With longish, mousy brown hair and thick glasses, Bertram is bookish, a sharp contrast to the less formal, hip Poirier.
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He swept his still damp hair out of his face, but the longish sides still fell in front.
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They have longish bills, and they seem to have pale gape lines, though I can't tell whether that's skin or feathering.
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That nod was what convinced Elsie, the way it made his longish hair swing a little.
AUGUST HEAT
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Every fleeting image was of a taller young man, perhaps in his early forties, a man with longish brown hair distinguished by a single white forelock falling into warm hazel eyes.
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He had dark brown longish hair, subtle sideburns, and these soulful, heavy-lidded eyes.
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He had roughly cut, longish hair, whose styling obviously did not interest him.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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He was tall with longish black hair swept out of his eyes, and sun tanned brown skin.
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I remember that Jason wore his longish blonde hair combed over to one side.
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The current state of drug research studies traces back to a 1975 phone call between an executive at what was then the world's largest drug company and a 30-year-old Brit with longish hair and bushy sideburns named Dennis Gillings.
Money, Math And Medicine
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Matt Landon pulls a respirator over his longish hair, snugging the facepiece down over his nose and mouth.
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He looked like the typical boy next door with dark blond longish hair that covered his high forehead and reached his brows.
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His longish hair was streaked down on either side of his face, his lips were blue.
The Glasgow Girls
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It's a longish coach trip but worth it.
The Sun
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A small derby hat adorned his balding pate, longish scraggles of grey-hairs nearly whispering along his ears and neck.
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That's two longish working days right there.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, it is so exasperating that I feel a rather longish rant coming on (relatively speaking -- which makes "longish" even more intimidating, coming as it is from me).
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [81] -- Where Are The Democrats On Healthcare Reform?!?
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The governor's son, Adlai Stevenson III, a retired senator, recalled watching a sales clerk stare at his credit card for a longish while, till he finally asked her if there was something familiar about the name.
A Nazi Story That Still Surprises
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Winter squashes and pumpkins should be cut with a longish piece of stalk attached once the skin has begun to harden.
Times, Sunday Times
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This longish-short comedo-tragic bit just about covers everything.
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