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Example sentences for "long enough"

  • If the water does not pass through fast enough, just stop pouring for a few seconds, that is, long enough to put the kettle back on the fire and start the boiling again.

  • Then cut a strip of puff-paste about three-quarters of an inch broad, long enough to cover the place or space glazed, which strip you put all around the first paste, and you then have a border.

  • Have a skewer, or merely a piece of wire, long enough to hold six birds; fix the skewer on the spit, and roast.

  • Martha put in an appearance at seven-thirty, having kept dinner waiting for half an hour, much to the amazement of those who had lived with her long enough to know her promptness in appearing for meals.

  • The Lord knows I've been looking for it long enough.

  • But it will be long enough for me to get out of town first.

  • Let me see; you allow yourselves three hours' stop at each airport; will that be long enough?

  • We have easily enough fuel aboard now for a couple of hours' flight, and that will be long enough for a first one.

  • Sometimes the observer took the throttle long enough to give his friend a chance to eat, and sometimes the pilot retained his seat, allowing the automatic arrangement to do the guiding for him while he munched his food.

  • This would probably be a safe course, and yet, by accident, there may be some good things in this bill that ought to be preserved, and certainly the Democratic party ought to regard it as a compliment to keep it long enough to read it.

  • Get a stick about one inch thru, cut it so that it will be long enough to rest against your treadle and that short stick is your treadle when it is raised above the bed a piece, cut the end off slanting so it will fit against the treadle good.

  • Should be long enough to make a loop about seven inches in diameter when set.

  • As a choker and to support the weight of logs to kill the otter, cut a pole (tamarac preferable) long enough to pass three feet each side of your picket or uprights, see that this falls easy and clear.

  • A steel straight-edge, long enough to extend across the muzzle-face, and several inches on the board, to ascertain the extreme length from base to muzzle.

  • Thus fitted, when the gun is run in and levelled, breechings must be long enough to allow the muzzle of the gun to come a foot inside of the upper port-sill, if the breadth of the vessel will allow it.

  • It is time that I did," replied the inventor; "I have neglected it long enough.

  • Alexander Armstrong spoke for a moment with the surgeon, long enough to learn that Stephen Trimble's injuries were probably not mortal, and to urge every attention possible.

  • But I don't keep it long enough--it passes too quickly.

  • But I shall never count on any one again for Plasmon, which is gruesome and medicinal, or at all events an "acquired taste," which the rest of my life will not be long enough to acquire.

  • Ann looked down at the reins, then up, straight up the avenue, a long enough moment to vision the future.

  • He took her by the waist, held her up long enough to prove the strength of his arms, then set her down; his lips pressed her cheek and his breath warmed her neck as he did so.

  • Some one was telling me you'd lived out there--long enough to be interested in automobiles, I hope.

  • She looked at Ann steadily, long enough for a quiver of feeling to cross her face.

  • She dropped the reins and moved vaguely, as if to get out on the other side, but Baird reached in and lifted her, held her up, as he had once before, long enough to look steadily into her troubled eyes.

  • Then I had best begin at once," she smiled, "or a lifetime will not be long enough.

  • I could then cling to life," said Robin Rue, "long enough at least to finish my spraying.

  • I would then consent to live," swore Robin Rue, "long enough at all events to make an end of my sowing.

  • He was some time away; long enough for me to pour out on paper the exultation of my thought, the confidence of my hope, my desire to have her safe at last with me upon the blue sea.

  • But, by getting down to the inlet of the sea, and following the bank of the little river, we were sure to reach the hacienda, if only a hope could buoy our sinking hearts long enough.

  • The horse hair must be long enough to keep the mineral well beneath the surface of the water so as to allow the balance to vibrate.

  • The neck of the pipette should be long enough to allow its being firmly grasped by the fingers and thumb of the right hand without inconvenience.

  • The lower tube or nose of the pipette should be long enough to reach into the bottle or flask containing the liquid about to be measured.

  • I gave a low whistle and one of them looked toward me long enough for me to put a ball in it.

  • The axle was a piece of wood eight inches square with a tongue fastened to it long enough to be used with a yoke of oxen, and the ends of the axle were roughly rounded, leaving something of a shoulder.

  • There he stayed in the Tombs, demanding a trial and protesting his innocence, and asserting that if the District Attorney would only look long enough he would find William R.

  • A five-minute fuse will be long enough, and it must be so placed that when it has burned its time the parachute will fall from the balloon.

  • My wire wasn't long enough to reach all the way, so they spliced on a length of three hundred feet more, and before I began my feats I walked back and forth over the wire to test it.

  • It's been going on long enough to be getting serious," I was told.

  • She hadn't known me two days; perhaps two days aren't long enough to find me out.

  • Then I wondered if I should find anything to keep me long enough to grow acclimatised.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long enough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    including some; long absence; long boiling; long bones; long experience; long hill; long hours; long interval; long letter; long life; long nose; long past; long piece; long rest; long series; long stretch; long table; long tail; long thoughts; long trail; longer alone; longer doubted; longer knew; longer period; longer required; one part