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long-winded
1. It may have been a bit long-winded, but it was all I had
2. making such long-winded speeches, but now he was playing the part of a politician
3. revert to their comfort zones of preparing long-winded project plans or
4. This knowledge, which is highly prized by the 1d beings, is uneconomical, long-winded and ‘dead’ to him
5. His questions were short, clipped, not catering for long-winded answers
6. sounded blunt, but Chantal also took poorly to long-winded stories or explanations
7. The author also has to put up with Amazon’s long-winded
8. Though it immediately struck him as odd that the conversation would be so long, he knew that politicians at city hall, especially those in high places, were long-winded and generally enjoyed hearing themselves talk
9. �What my long-winded friend is so eloquently trying to say is that that large speck in the sky is Mag approaching,� Venarya interrupted
10. "You're a long-winded chap," he said, "but I'm blessed if I know what you're driving at
11. point was key, because anything long-winded tended to get misconstrued
12. These, days people prefer not to read long-winded sales letter, they would rather just watch a sales video
13. When Lebeziatnikov finished his long-winded harangue with the logical deduction at the end, he was quite tired, and the perspiration streamed from his face
14. Great was the enjoyment the duke and duchess derived from the irritation the worthy churchman showed at the long-winded, halting way Sancho had of telling his story, while Don Quixote was chafing with rage and vexation
15. All present laughed at the number of caps and the novelty of the suit; Sancho set himself to think for a moment, and then said, "It seems to me that in this case it is not necessary to deliver long-winded arguments, but only to give off-hand the judgment of an honest man; and so my decision is that the tailor lose the making and the labourer the cloth, and that the caps go to the prisoners in the gaol, and let there be no more about it
16. Not a long-winded boy, are you? There’s the offending device
17. I’d last seen Paul in 1983, when we sang his song “My Ever Changing Moods” together at a well-intentioned but long-winded theater event called The Big One
18. We advised them to sell the position, but their analyst began a long-winded discourse on why INSP was “undervalued
19. So long-winded was he and so unweariable, that when he had swum farthest he would immediately plunge again, nevertheless; and then no wit could divine where in the deep pond, beneath the smooth surface, he might be speeding his way like a fish, for he had time and ability to visit the bottom of the pond in its deepest part
20. He was himself somewhat intoxicated, but the prince gathered from his long-winded periods that the party had assembled quite naturally, and accidentally
21. "Stop, Stepan Trofimovitch, you are horribly long-winded
22. I can remember blushing hotly at the question, but at the same time feeling—for all my efforts to prevent it—a self-satisfied smile steal over my face as I began talking, in the most inflated and long-winded French, such rubbish as even now, after dozens of years, it shames me to recall
23. Then, sir, those long-winded speeches must be either intended for the gallery, or for gentlemen's constituents