"lengthy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His ultimate decision to resign came after a lengthy lecture on machine guns, which was interfering with his plans for dinner with a particularly attractive young lady.
- "I won't bore you with a lengthy lecture on how the elements were broken down," Yaeger continued.
- The appalled Raja had to give him a lengthy lecture on the intricacies of the caste system.
- The Navy officer, in turn, gave the F.B.I. agent a loud, lengthy lecture on the dangers and strategies of deep-sea salvage operations.
- Each concert began with a lengthy, unintelligible lecture by the Hindu preacher.
- "My, that was a most lengthy and boring lecture," she commented.
- I was all set to settle in for a fairly lengthy lecture, but instead of launching into the subject, Guido looked a bit uncomfortable.
- Lucien Wilbanks began with a lengthy and quite dull lecture about the presumption of innocence and how it is the foundation of American jurisprudence.
- Mr. Gorbachev began that meeting, at the Soviet Embassy, with a lengthy lecture on his view of the world.
- He was too tired for a lengthy political lecture, the details of which were hazy to him as well.
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