longish

Example Sentences

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Don’t be intimidated by that longish list of spices.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

For Seth Rogen’s character, a woeful carpenter, Moe made a longish mullet modeled on his own father, who worked for a Wisconsin telephone company in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022

There’s evidence of the mullet — which is characterized by hair closely shorn everywhere except at the back of the head, where it is left longish — appearing in ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini