Sentence examples for long upon from inspiring English sources

You string a kite too long upon its string, sooner or later it ends up stranded on the moon.

Wolfe writes: The leaders of the nation had fixed their gaze so long upon the illusions of false prosperity that they had forgotten what America looked like.

But so is "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee".

On the third Ivanovic hit a forehand long, upon which Coin screamed in delighted, jumped for joy and hit a ball high into the stands.

As he strode purposefully through the great stone emptiness, his face carefully illuminated and his shadow thrown long upon the noble ramparts, his heels made a percussive staccato rhythm against the strains of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".

Still, while applauding the occurrence of such late-life delights, even welcoming the latest glad tidings from the gerontology front, we may not want to dwell too long upon the conjunction of age and sex, or look at it too closely.

But her long put-upon assistant might be the weak link.

(Inside the house the story isn't any happier; this week Helga Schmidt, the Palau de les Arts's too-long-put-upon director, announced she's stepping down).

If they are right, the images add weight to a long-speculated-upon theory that liquid water remains buried beneath the Martian surface.

Angelo Smaldino, Lucca, Italy Long lines upon arrival Regarding the article "Long flight, then a long wait" (Aug.

Merrick Garland, 63, a Bill Clinton appointment on the Washington DC circuit, long speculated upon as a potential supreme court nominee.