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
To show what I mean, let me quote a longish paragraph from her latest book, “Esmond and Ilia,” a double portrait of her parents during the first years of their marriage.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
He was twenty-seven years old, a tall man with dark blue eyes and longish brown hair parted in the middle and hanging over his forehead.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
