Sentence examples for ground so long from inspiring English sources

The New York Globe wrote of the performance "[t]hus leap by leap the colored man and woman encroach upon the ground so long held sacred by their white brother and sister".

I just wanted to touch solid ground for so long.

He was on safe ground, though, so long as he talked about the current President.

"But the beauty about being on the ground for so long is that we are now able to have that kind of volume".

That makes it impossible to excuse the mean spirit and scrambled logic of his assertion that "there should be no mosque near ground zero so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia".

He was a roof-man and proud of it; had fled the world at ground level so long ago... Old Bailey remembered when people had actually lived here in the City, not just worked; when they had lived and lusted and laughed, built ramshackle houses one leaning against the next, each house filled with noisy people.

It even works with ATVs which disrupt the human silhouette sufficiently that Salmoni is on fairly safe ground -- so long as he keeps his distance and stays on the bike.

It took almost two years after its launch announcement before Bookish got off the ground -- so long that the company went through three CEOs and the merger of one of its founders, Penguin, with the world's largest publisher, Random House, before it finally got underway in February 2013.

We could see where we were going this time, and we could find stuff like this window frame that had been lying on the ground for so long a tree had grown up in the middle of it.

The fictional can be grounded, just so long as everything is right.

Who do they think they are, trampling on sacred ground like Tiananmen so long?