How to Use a (good) long while in a Sentence

a (good) long while

noun

• Laughter heard amongst the staff for the first time in a long while.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The name of Byron, for a long while, tolled like a bell.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• And like many shows, Stranger Things will not be there to fill it for a long while.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Something that would stick around for a good long while.
  — Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• For the first time in a long while, our future burns a little brighter.
  — Moustafa Bayoumi, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Townsend says not to worry, that 4G is likely to stick around for a long while.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• The Best Actor race for the films of 2002 was as neck-and-neck an affair as the Oscars had seen in a long while.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2022
• As such, theories like this could take a long while to prove.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 June 2022
• For a long while, Prigozhin looked like the solution to Putin’s problems.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• But like Adele and Drake, many have concluded that that time may not come for a long while.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
• Another sat for a long while by the trap, just looking at it.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The 33-year-old gives the kind of star-making performance that only comes along once in a long while.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• What happens now they’re sidelined — and in Lee’s case, perhaps for a long while?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
• That was tough, because cars as promising as the Taurus come along only once in a long while.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
• Old toms are best skinned, since that leathery skin is not nice to eat even after cooking for a long while.
  — Hank Shaw, Outside Online, 1 May 2022
• In spite of all uncomfortable reasons the Padres trot out — and much of it makes sense — this isn’t working and hasn’t for a long while.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• In both cases, the shiver of exaltation stayed with me for a long while.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Late, meaning the birch leaves won’t reach squirrel’s ears size — signaling no more frost — for a long while yet.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• The reporters simply had to wait — until a little while turned into a long while.
  — James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2021
• Simmons started, but both first-round picks were on the bench a long while at one point during the second quarter.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• And so a twinge of genuine hope percolates through many of my conversations for the first time in a long while.
  — Ryan Miller, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Here are five minor gripes that have been plaguing Destiny 2 for a long while now that could use some fixing.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Taylor was down on the ground for a long while being examined by trainers.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 29 Aug. 2022
• Swift was content with her privacy with Alwyn for a good long while.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• The child’s upset was so understandable that the audience laughed for a good long while.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
• Even with health passports in hand, social distancing measures will still have to stay in place for a long while yet.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 4 Mar. 2021
• For the first time in a long while, the governments of the United States and North Korea are negotiating in good faith.
  — John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2019
• And then for a while, a long while, responsibility for being the last.
  — Jesse Remedios, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
• Our arrival on this unknown little pier was the first for a long while that had not projected the image of an ending.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Although this has picked up during the pandemic, people have been using video games to process death for a long while.
  — Jennifer Stavros, Wired, 14 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024