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

The novel was turned into a mini-series for French television in 1966, but the breathless sprawl of a longish feature film may serve it better.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 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

Ifemelu could tell, from the longish length, the near-perfect waves that grazed his collar, that he took fastidious care of his hair.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie