"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was the first to identify, in 1938, a captured fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought long extinct.
- A childhood anger flared from coals I had thought long extinct.
- The house of Karnstein," he said, "has been long extinct: a hundred years at least.
- It became extinct not long after its discovery in the 1880s, most likely due to grazing pressure from cattle and goat ranching.
- This means that the moa has not been extinct very long.
- A species of tree thought long extinct, dating back to the Cretaceous period.
- But the story had never made the news services; an outbreak of a military virus thought long extinct had swept through the hospital.
- I soon found that what he said was too true, and that, of course, life had been long extinct.
- The city was a ghost town, its inhabitants long extinct.
- The volcano has been long extinct and has a large crater in which are two shallow lakes.
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