Sentence examples for gets long from inspiring English sources
When people press me about their status ("But are they really twins?"), the answer gets long.
If a middle class girl gets long, frosty black nails, she's pushing it.
When the course gets long enough, pain sets in, and the question is whether you're going to believe in your pain and quit or keep on going.
At six hours the story gets long and grinding, but, Walter Goodman wrote in The New York Times, "few lives are made for television, and their troubles deserve attention".
Add more ponies doing more tricks, and the one-trick pony gets long in the tooth real fast.
"I hope with their efforts this country gets long-lasting peace".
When Verizon gets long-distance approval in roughly 95% of its states, it will trigger an option that gives it an 80% stake in Genuity as well as full operational control.
It is one of those relationships that you want to nurture so much that it gets long-term at least for 2-4 years.
Though along the way, the going gets long-winded (and sound designer Fergus O'Hare lays pretty heavy on the histrionic underscore--or overscoring--when Jim and Eleanor listen intently and symbolically to Bach's St. Matthew Passion), the dismaying denouement is completely believable.
