longish

Example Sentences

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The account of this period of Númenórean history is longish and rather dull, despite the inclusion of a tale of ill-fated love.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

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

His skin was green, his beard scraggly brown, and his longish hair was tied back in a seaweed bandana.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan