How to Use long since in a Sentence

long since

adverb
  • By now, his movie has long since succumbed to its own brio.
    Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But the presidents and prime ministers have long since come and gone.
    Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Its interior had long since vanished, leaving only its limestone walls and structural columns.
    Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But in the novel’s equally unstable present time, Qizi has long since vanished, and Mengliu has abandoned poetry to become a surgeon.
    Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The irony here is that the talismanic faith in compromise has long since come unmoored from the principal virtue most commonly invoked to justify it—rationality.
    Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The money from the last successful school bond, which passed in 2016, has long since been spent, and the state’s school repair fund is expected to be depleted by January.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The felony charge was dropped Feb. 15, but by then the Longhorns had long since moved on.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In much of the West, that window has long since passed.
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
    Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Brackish, like the oceans that have long since dried up!
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2024
  • The stamping has long since died down — at least out loud.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • By then, May had already been on the loose for 3 1/2 years, and the trail to catch him had long since gone cold.
    Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Many of these projects are doomed attempts to plumb a well that’s long since run dry.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The delta that Leopold saw has long since dried up and disappeared.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Sadly, the shining eyes of that era have long since dimmed.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • There are bleachers set up along the parade route but the seats have long since sold out.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • All signs of the Monterey Park massacre have long since been cleared away.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The terms of anyone elected in 2016 have long since expired.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • The post–Cold War peace dividend has long since been spent.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • They were not charged with a federal crime, and both have long since died.
    Michael Goldberg and Allen G. Breed, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • After all, its been far too long since our toes saw the sunshine.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Among the papers are letters from friends who have long since died.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
  • The Israeli public has long since ceased to view him as a peace partner.
    Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • By the time the album peaked at No. 3 here in the States, the Moody Blues had long since moved on, recording six more albums.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
  • Yet, nine months later, the news cycle has long since moved on.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 May 2024
  • By Tuesday evening, many of you will have long since mailed in your ballots.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Wages have long since soared well beyond that and are still rising.
    Sean Higgins, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Still, the linoleum tiles in the kitchen have long since disappeared under layers of filth.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Many would agree that Tia and Tamera have come a long since their TV sitcom days.
    Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Shëngjin has long since lost the atmosphere of an Afghan village.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022

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