"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Early in the evening, Stubblefield-who, thanks to his size, intellect, and verbosity, had become a prominent, even dominant, figure in the community-delivered a long oration, the tenor of which nobody, least of all he, could afterward recall.
- Theodore composed a long funeral oration, the Laudatio Platonis, which remains one of the most important sources for the history of the family.
- He didn't feel like a long oration.
- Listening to him, the thought that crossed my mind was stump speech, and I prepared myself for a long oration, but he quickly returned to the matter of the two dead girls.
- Gone, like their three-games-to-none lead, are the long orations about their greatness and their place in history.
- Ransom was lost for a while in the wonder of these things, so that when he came to himself he found that Perelandra was speaking, and what he heard seemed to be the end of a long oration.
- Pythagoras in the rear heaved a deep sigh; he drew in his breath preparatory to a long and comprehensive oration.
- It had been John's longest oration in some years.
- Then Zhang Wentian in a long critical oration, condemned the leaders for the debacle in Jiangxi.
- Joseph Maher and Charles Keating deserved standing ovations and thunderous applause for some of their longer orations, but they fell on deaf ears.
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