longish
Example Sentences
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Walking on a balcony, I turned a corner, and there he was, tall and slender, with soulful brown eyes and a longish mop of brown hair threatening to hide them.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025
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
It pictures him with longish hair and a dark cap, casting a sideways glance at the viewer.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022
"I had longish curtains hair so my mum used to dab her black eyeliner onto the patches to take the eye away from the areas."
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021
Janie took a big needle and ran up a longish sack.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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