Sentence examples for long stop from inspiring English sources
noun
A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position
Lewis hits to Long Stop, scoring 5 runs.
Cullen hits to Long Stop, scoring 6 runs.
Cullen hits to Long Stop, scoring 5 runs.
Kist hits to Long Stop, scoring 1 run.
Van Gerwen hits to Long Stop, scoring 3 runs.
de Graaf hits to Long Stop, scoring 4 runs.
And nothing distills the long, stop-and-start history of hockey in Pittsburgh like the Duquesne Gardens wall.
The wagons, affirmed Beeching, underlined what was wrong with the network: an old-fashioned, complicated structure whereby each unit was laboriously reattached to a train and which meant that goods faced a long, stop-start journey to their eventual destinations.
One was a long, stop-and-start vocal opening to Buddy Johnson's "Save Your Love For Me" that stuttered over and restarted parts of the opening line — "wish I knew" — with almost digital control, until it became a kind of percussive improvisation.
In Emmanuel's office, everyone had long stopped working.
The rain has long stopped and the sun is dazzling.
