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Sentence Examples
Over one hundred homeless people, often called 'long grassers' held a protest outside Parliament House.
I nussed all his chillun and den later, 'long come dey's chillun and I nussed dem, and I'se even nussed de great gran 'chillun.
Why, blast, I mind when I wor boardsman o' the Rose of Sharon. The mate, I f 'rget his name, went hoom unexpected-like one night and found a man in bed 'long o' his old woman.
The Mayan 'Long Count' calendar runs out on Friday, which New Age jibber jabberers have widely predicted means an Apocalypse.
Examples from Classical Literature
Me, I was trailin' 'long with this mex mustanger to learn some of his tricks.
I don't want no more stone-ballast hove at us 'long o' your calm' Miquelon boats 'footy cochins,' same's you did off Le Have.
Sis Rhody, she sez she done save you de bes' puffovers you ever tase, en ef'n you don' come 'long down, dey'll fall right flat.
Though cannibals, they do not kill for the sake of eating 'long pig,' like the cannibals of the South Seas.
Maybe he would, only he died somewheres in Californy 'long in '54 or thereabouts.
Theerfur 'tan't my intentions to moor Missis Gummidge 'long with them, but to find a Beein' fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself.
Bimeby, 'long todes night, brer Rabbit 'low he better be gwine.
Pap used to sleep there, sometimes, 'long with the hogs, but laws bless you, he just lifts things when HE snores.
Now if you wil-lin', an' ENT too lazy an' sassy, we 'll git 'long somehow.
I 'spec' mine done it, too, jes' like you say, 'long 'bout 'Leven.
We was a-standin' purty peaceable fer a spell, 'though there was men runnin' ev'ry way all 'round us, an' while we was a-standin' like that, 'long come a big fat feller.
The audience of 411 would have recognised the allusion as pertaining to the famous 'Long Walls' connecting Spartan-held Megara with Athenian-held Nisaia.
