How to Use long face in a Sentence

long face

noun
  • Billions of people around the world no longer face this plight.
    — Michael Erard, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Texas has long faced the destruction feral hogs can have on land and wildlife.
    — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Kylie wore her hair in an updo with a side part and left one long face-framing tendril.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 16 May 2022
  • In our first video call, Magda’s long face and deep smile seemed familiar to me.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the nasty environment long faced by politicians who dare vote for gun control.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The picture of the long face framed by dark hair, the little kid who had a chip on his shoulder, evaporated.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2021
  • McCarthy has long faced doubts from hard-right lawmakers such as Jordan.
    — Mike Debonis, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The lower half of the hominin’s long face juts forward beneath its wide, heavy cheekbones, then narrows above them.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
  • With confidence low and long faces on the home sideline, the Cowboys were in desperate need of a spark.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Liquor has long faced the highest levies – and accordingly, received the most substantial tax cut.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Bird species in the Caribbean have long faced severe tropical weather.
    — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • His long face and heavy eyelids combined with his beard reminded me of portraits by El Greco.
    — Damon Johnstun, OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Greig and Walter make a fine duo as foils who appear sisterly thanks to their similarly long faces and sharp beauty.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Facebook has long faced an issue over how best to let people express less-than-positive feelings about people’s posts and comments.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2018
  • On the Lookout Draw attention away from a long face by sporting a pair of shades that angle outward at the temples.
    — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, 9 July 2010
  • Kurdish people have long faced state oppression there, too, but took over large swaths of northern Syria during its civil war.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • There was no moderator in the Lincoln-Douglas-style hour-long face off, only a time keeper.
    — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Working-class Prichard has long faced financial woes and population decline.
    — al, 4 Feb. 2020
  • India’s troops have been engaged in a weeks-long face-off with Chinese soldiers at the nations’ Himalayan borders.
    — Jason Scott, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020
  • His long face, which on this particular day shone with the embalmed elegance of a Jerry Lee Lewis, got cloudy.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Photographs from the mid-19th century show bulldogs with longer faces, straight tails, and minimal wrinkling.
    — Nick Norman, National Geographic, 29 July 2016
  • Surveillance footage circulated by police showed two masked people, one of them wearing what appeared to be a gray ski mask and the other a long face mask and black hoodie.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Dan had an unusually long face, for instance, so Anti-Dan’s was unusually short.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
  • The skull has a mosaic of both primitive and more evolved features, such as a small braincase and long face, not previously seen together in the fossil record.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2013
  • Fun is something that had escaped the locker room in recent weeks, replaced by finger-pointing, private complaints, long faces and tension that threatened to rip them apart.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Tall and aristocratic, Bergh dressed impeccably, often sporting a top hat and silver cane, his long face framed by a drooping mustache.
    — Ernest Freeberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Roosevelt and Garfield high schools have long faced off in a homecoming event known as The Classic, held almost every year for close to a century.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The prayer Ruby Williams had relied on through the years still ran through her mind hours after the meeting, as children and grandchildren with long faces and wet tears filtered in and out of her home.
    — Tamara Lush, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The largest of these groups are the Uighurs, who have long faced discrimination and restrictions on cultural and religious activities.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Rohingya Muslims have long faced discrimination in the Southeast Asian country.
    — Muneeza Naqvi, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017

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