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
• In our first video call, Magda’s long face and deep smile seemed familiar to me.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• Kylie wore her hair in an updo with a side part and left one long face-framing tendril.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 16 May 2022
• The Morganucodon had a small gerbil-like body and a long face similar to those of shrews or civets.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That’s the nasty environment long faced by politicians who dare vote for gun control.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• McCarthy has long faced doubts from hard-right lawmakers such as Jordan.
  — Mike Debonis, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• His long face and heavy eyelids combined with his beard reminded me of portraits by El Greco.
  — Damon Johnstun, OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Liquor has long faced the highest levies – and accordingly, received the most substantial tax cut.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 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
• 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
• 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
• Biden has long faced criticism for his 2002 vote, including from Sanders, who voted against the resolution as a member of the House.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2020
• Instacart has long faced questions about its labor model.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2020
• Trump, who famously let late-night host Jimmy Fallon tousle his hair and has long faced jokes about it, may not have been amused, but the photo led Twitter users to crack jokes.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 5 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
• Bird species in the Caribbean have long faced severe tropical weather.
  — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
• With an annual budget of $5.98 billion, the city’s school system has also long faced fiscal struggles.
  — Monica Davey, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• Constraints like that have long faced biologists seeking to understand life at the remote bottom of the planet.
  — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Spurs have long faced criticism over their lack of depth, with key players such as Harry Kane and Son Heung-min said to have been suffering from fatigue during the season.
  — SI.com, 4 June 2019
• 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
• Overall, Madagascar's dozens of lemur species have long faced threats from deforestation and hunting by humans.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 5 Sep. 2017
• Photographs from the mid-19th century show bulldogs with longer faces, straight tails, and minimal wrinkling.
  — Nick Norman, National Geographic, 29 July 2016
• 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
• The state has overseen the Central Falls school department for nearly 30 years, but that decision was made because that small city has long faced financial problems.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024