Sentence examples for friends long from inspiring English sources

With Jason, they were friends long before a relationship began.

She would drive off in the middle of the night to visit friends long dead.

Lisa and I had been friends long before we met to judge the Booker.

Others stayed and remained friends long after the classes had ended.

BOB was a painter of some renown; he and my father had been friends long before my parents split.

Safe from prying eyes, her friends long for love, power and beauty -- essential armaments in a male-dominated society.

Within those backers are friends, long-time fans, family members, classmates, people in the gardening club with you.

He had always been what one friend described as a "sociable recluse," with many friends, long-distance and otherwise.

It was a nasty oil slick of a regime, and every Cambodian seems to have a tale (or many tales) of lost relatives, missing friends, long-ago happiness.

"The Wire" really conveys, on the one hand, how tiny the worst Baltimore neighborhoods are (I used to bike through West Baltimore in about six minutes), and on the other how difficult it can be, in the absence of decent exit strategies, to put a hundred yards between you and your block's dense pack of friends, long-suffering older relatives and business associates.

It does, for instance, keep our daughters in close touch with their European friends and relatives (yes, metaphorical "touch," but visiting them often isn't an option); keep our older daughter, who is away at college, in close touch with her high-school friends; and get me back in touch with friends long-unseen — whom I then do sometimes see, in person.