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Example sentences for "long night"

  • There was no sleep for her the live-long night, but she went swiftly to a place she knew of, where the wistaria drooped over a still pool.

  • The Children of the Air rest in the Pine Tree's branches, and make murmuring music all the live-long night.

  • So they stood the live-long night, not touching one another but looking into each other's eyes most steadfastly.

  • The Children of the Air rested in the Pine Tree's branches, and made murmuring music all the live-long night.

  • I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night.

  • After the obsession of the long, long night, Spring leaps into being with a sudden sun-thrilled joy, a radiant uplift.

  • The great valley was preternaturally still, and pall-like as if steeped in the colours of the long, long night.

  • He pushed boldly forward, and was suddenly caught under the throat-by the clothes-line with a long night-gown on it.

  • I must have found him there in the afternoon, and he must have made me sup with him (dinner was at two o'clock) and then go with him for a long night of talk in his study.

  • Perhaps it was at the end of a long night of the Dante Club that I heard him tell this story.

  • What a long night is coming now, in which the doctor says we shall be parted!

  • And seeing thus, I can put up with my "long, long night of waiting," thinking only of that heavenly ending!

  • When one can dream dreams like that, one can put up with "the long, long night of waiting," knowing it will have such a heavenly ending.

  • Erin, oh Erin, thus bright thro' the tears Of a long night of bondage, thy spirit appears.

  • And O the long, long night, with no return of her father and no tidings!

  • O the long, long night, with the moans of the poor wife!

  • I had slept through a long night like a small child upon the bosom of the bed of my beautiful Grandmamma who smiled down upon me.

  • I dreaded the sight of him that I should find upon the arrival of the ship at the dock, which would be an answer to the letter I had sent to him to inform him of my coming, and I spent my long night in hate of him.

  • All three slept soundly throughout the live-long night.

  • It is the fear of Indians alone that causes the prairie traveller to keep sentry during the live-long night; but our young hunters had much less fear of them than might be supposed.

  • So they washed themselves clear of the dust, ate their frugal meal, and stretched themselves out for a long night's rest.

  • The wall the "Long Night" had built could not be passed.

  • I shuddered when I remembered the words the "Long Night" had just spoken, and the laugh had in it something sinister.

  • Then I thought I heard the "Long Night" say to me: "For one night of six months I rule at the North Pole.

  • There was a pause; then I thought I heard the sardonic laugh of the "Long Night.

  • Israel hath made a long night of the sojourn," he rejoined laughingly.

  • The first high white light of dawn was breaking upon the century-long night of Israel.

  • It is Egypt that hath made a long night of our sojourn.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long night" 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:
    gainful occupations; long after; long article; long away; long chalk; long chase; long delayed; long discourse; long enough; long hairs; long have; long lines; long pepper; long pole; long pull; long slant; long speech; long standing; long story; long tail; long term; longer alone; longer doubted; longer have; longer thought; longer young