long passage
Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words
describes a passage of considerable length
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Examples (10)
- The old manor house had a long passage leading to the servant quarters.
- I decided to read a long passage from the book to the children.
- The pianist played a long passage of rapid scales with great precision.
- They prepared the ship carefully for a long passage across the Atlantic.
- The exam required us to translate a long passage of complex Latin prose.
- We walked through a long passage deep underground to reach the vault.
- This symphony contains a long passage for solo violin near the end.
- A long passage at sea can be quite exhausting for inexperienced sailors.
- The lawyer quoted a long passage from the contract to support his case.
- A long passage connected the two main wings of the Victorian hospital.