Sentence examples for had long disappeared from inspiring English sources

But in 2013 the roadblocks had long disappeared.

Island lore had it that the dredgers had long disappeared from these waters.

And the Sumerians themselves had long disappeared into the multiracial mix that was ancient Iraq.

I finally recognized that her frailty had long disappeared, that her arms and legs were muscular, not emaciated.

All the elements assumed to constitute a matrimonial bond (love, sex, companionship, cooperation) had long disappeared, if indeed they had ever been present.

The design blueprints, by the architect Samuel Pepys Cockrell, were lost and fallen sections of the original brazier had long disappeared.

This illusion has long disappeared.

Electric fish have long disappeared from the medical armamentarium.

Rightwing dictatorship and military rule have long disappeared from the Latin American scene.

The pouting and the petulance -- like the losses -- have long disappeared.

The exhibition has Garnier drawings, the houses themselves having long disappeared, unlike the Eiffel Tower, Garnier's bugaboo.