How to Use long-winded in a Sentence

long-winded

adjective
  • Which is a long-winded way of saying the industry got out over its skis.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But, by heck, Tolkien does love a long-winded description.
    — Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps an ode to the cerulean sweater that prompted Priestly's long-winded rant in the original film?
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps an ode to the cerulean sweater that prompted Priestly's long-winded rant in the original film?
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Most were held at church, which meant the price of fried fish was often sitting through an extended sermon led by a long-winded pastor.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Jake heard the news in the break room at work and almost immediately began a long-winded email to Tom.
    — Olivia Krupp, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Trump, of course, was rude, untruthful, and excessively, if not quite so egregiously, long-winded in his first term, too.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Industry events are often staid affairs, full of long-winded speeches and by-the-numbers performances.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Most of his Hailey songs can be sorted into long-winded apologies or lusty worship tracks, but this one is almost more of a mission statement.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An irritating habit of his is to stop by and launch into long-winded stories about some mundane event in his present or past life or to pontificate about a current event.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Merkley, 69, was joined on the floor at times by a number of his Democratic colleagues, with some of them asking him long-winded questions to lessen the burden.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The 4½-hour ceremony varied between long-winded and succinct.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • His colleagues, many of whom appeared in the chamber to ask long-winded questions to highlight certain issues and give Merkley a break from speaking, concurred about the timing.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 22 Oct. 2025
  • All of which is a long-winded way of saying that with seven games to go, European football is very much on for David Moyes’ side — that alone shows the progression made over the past year.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The film features numerous long-winded monologues, including one delivered by Tracy that astounded Shatner on set.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • That long-winded name is shortened to DDR, and the following number indicates the transfer rate (divided by 100).
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Jane perches on the corner of a kitchen chair, replying succinctly to Luna’s long-winded questions as she’s offered an open box of Ritz, a can of Easy Cheese and a bag of Cheetos in rapid succession.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Part of the problem with policymaking at the level of the federal government is that the impacts are often too large, too long-winded, too abstract to really be able to nearly encompass their full breadth, particularly for busy people who have their own immediate concerns to worry about.
    — New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That belief leads to a lot of money wasted on plain-vanilla surveys, irritating dinnertime interrupting spam calls, and ends with long-winded market research reports replete with cross-tabulations and PowerPoint presentations.
    — Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The only certainty in these films is that the self-righteous Optimus Prime will always preach some long-winded, sleep-inducing monologue at the end of the movie before a radio-friendly Linkin Park or Imagine Dragons song blares over the credits.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Fallujah, Xenotaph Crushing, tuneful and proggy, but never exactly long-winded, Xenotaph, the sixth full-length from San Francisco death-metal outfit Fallujah, is a wonder of balance and precision.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • As part of a long-winded court case related to conditions on Rikers, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Swain has ordered that a receiver — who would oversee the DOC commissioner — should take over control of the notoriously dangerous jail complex.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026

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