How to Use long since in a Sentence

long since

adverb
  • The whole day long since gone sour.
    — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • How long since Rhaenyra last felt at home?
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • What’s clear is that the mall’s best days have long since passed.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Djokovic, though, has long since learned how to play through the noise.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But his opinion has long since soured.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • Sky players were long since out of sight.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • The marathon crowds had long since cleared, and cleanup crews had swept through the area.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The juice stains are long since gone; the vats are now the color of brown sand.
    — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The dirt around me had long since soaked up the liquid that had been in my body.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • The other three are long since gone, but Texas plays on.
    — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Many of these projects are doomed attempts to plumb a well that’s long since run dry.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The edge of the star was traced with gold glitter, most of it long since rubbed away.
    — Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The mutant virus had long since gained a foothold and spread widely.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
  • After all, its been far too long since our toes saw the sunshine.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Even the field that the team called home has long since been demolished.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Switch had long since been bought by Vans, and Vans phased them out.
    — Lisa Jhung, Outside, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The party had long since ended.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Bradley has long since been known as a player who wears his emotions on his sleeve.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Edwin had long since lost count of the number of birds that passed through his hands.
    — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The 2024 election is long since over.
    — David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The ruins of the theater have long since been carted away.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • The delta that Leopold saw has long since dried up and disappeared.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Its retail sector has long since fled to the suburbs.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This time around, though, there’s nothing in this reissue that fans haven’t long since heard.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The time has long since passed for people to slow their roll about Muti.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 26 May 2020
  • The tiers have long since crumbled, but the sense of power remains.
    — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Those changes have long since been made and the resurgence is underway.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the heavyweights had long since advanced to the knockout rounds.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020

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