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longs

/ lɒŋz /

plural noun

  1. full-length trousers
  2. long-dated gilt-edged securities
  3. finance unsold securities or commodities held in anticipation of rising prices
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I suspect she still longs for a community who could love her despite what she did.

Today, Hatch is a married father of one adopted son, but he longs to connect with his progeny.

The life Piper longs for, whether with Larry or Alex, might not look much different.

The family fled to Jordan in June of this year, but Soundos still longs to play with a doll that was left behind.

Now in his eighties, Sean apparently "longs for a reconciliation."

He's to foreclose that mortgage and longs to own that one field of ours just to complete the shape of his farm.

She was thrown from Short and Longs bobsled one night and had to be helped home.

Gradually the desire for the romantic increases until the novel-reader longs to have a romance of her own.

One rather shrinks from that kind of thing when one is not used to it, and longs to do something to disturb it.

The Adagio is very fine in its way, but such is its cloying sweetness that one longs for something bracing and active.

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