I keep my eyes on them for the longest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Compared to Chi-Boy’s six-plus feet, I wasn’t the tallest, but I did have the longest hair of any of the boys, almost to my waist, burnt ombré at the untrimmed edges. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The game, which turned out to be the longest of Bobby’s career, ended as an interesting draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next longest wave is the third harmonic, or second overtone, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She would have spent the longest in a real bedroom before the hunt began, way more than any of us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The three friends sit there for the longest while, one hand atop the other. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was the longest baby Johnny had ever seen, had the straightest black hair, cried the least and ate the fastest. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of her, he had joined the debate club, and after she spoke, he clapped the loudest and longest, until her friends said, “Obinze, please, it is enough.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After the longest rocking hug I’ve ever witnessed, they let each other go. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Didn’t nothing move for the longest time, then, slow as can be, a man came out from behind the maple holding on to his hat. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“The longest streak ever of you not mentioning my psychiatrist.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is the longest hour, filled with recollections of luxury and pain. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some passed the castle to their own sons and grandsons, and offshoot branches of House Stark had arisen; the Greystarks had lasted the longest, holding the. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you’re close enough to a Decker when they die, you won’t be able to put words to anything for the longest time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said reluctantly, “I think we had better turn north to the Forest of Idris. It’s the longest way around, but at least it would give us some cover.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know that this is officially the longest email I've ever written? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Otis pressed his forehead to the heart, standing there the longest time of them all, head to heart, like he was filling up his empty tank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the longest while they decided to let the big baby have his own way and came back downstairs. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She releases her deepest and longest sigh yet. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The whole incident took less than two minutes, but it was the longest, most stressful two minutes of my life. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’d been there the longest and was too weak to rise. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In fact I had him the longest of all my animals, for he came back to England with me and lived in Bournemouth for many years, with the run of house and garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans today are heirs to one of the longest traditions of animal domestication on Earth—that which began in Southwest Asia around 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the sixth was the longest minute of them all—the embarrassing walk to the principal's office. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They would remain in our doorway for the longest time just staring us up and down, while their baskets of plenty loomed silently on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Joey helped Zed plug in the world’s longest extension cord from his camper to our garage. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fridays seem like the longest days, counting every minute till the school bell rings at the end of the day. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The longest I sat with him was when he took out my stitches. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That was the longest journey he had ever taken, though it could not have lasted more than half an hour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just the one splash, then nothing for the longest time. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The growing season—that is, the months with temperatures and day lengths suitable for plant growth—is shortest at high latitudes and longest toward the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emily sometimes suspected her parents had an unspoken competition about who could ignore the moving boxes the longest. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim’s train, the longest train of all, did not move for two days. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long night, perhaps the longest in my life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The shortest was a single sentence. The longest was a couple dozen pages. Some of them were almost like little plays. Others were just questions to the person he was writing to.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the longest skirt in the sophomore class.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After the longest night ever I had to seriously get reacquainted with my pillow. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The strike, in which all seven major newspapers in New York City cease publication, will last 114 days, making it the longest newspaper strike in US history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the closest people fool us the longest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I used to think my name was Sugar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the longest day: mindlessly hot, unspeakably hot, too hot to move or even think. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the longest minute of my life, you cried. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When he tried to leave her, she had already sharpened her longest kitchen knife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could be the longest wait of my life, I think. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe—just as she had chosen me on the longest night, she had chosen me again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He hung his head for the longest time, staring down at his hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day of summer is the longest day of the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Cain looks at each one of us, but it seems like his gaze lingers longest on me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

What followed was the longest trial in the history of the Massachusetts courts, a trial almost as unique as the catastrophe that had caused it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But then, in the second measure, a syncopation happens; the longest and highest note is on beat two, normally a weak beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That Hickock’s got a sense of humor. They was telling me how, about an hour ago, one of the guards says to him, ‘This must be the longest night of your life.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Screams and smoke from the powder rised up to the top of the tent, and, truth told, my scream was ’mongst the loudest and longest lasting! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was the longest walk of my life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After he had harvested the bits that were longest—and farthest away from her claws—Osh spent a moment plowing through her remaining fur, yanking ticks as he found them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can't remember anything about what they ate, but I'm sure that taking his order that day was the longest exchange of words I ever had with Tariq, direct. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he went over to the window and stared out of it for the longest time, and I knew he was thinking about my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Same day—Monday, May 27,1935 We stay outside for the longest time. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This has been the longest closure since the park was built. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, yelda is the first night of the month of Jadi, the first night of winter, and the longest night of the year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Chutreaux wished to build the longest, widest, highest, and most beautiful cathedral in all of France. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And those that were deepest and longest in evil servitude, hating the West, and yet were men proud and bold, in their turn now gathered themselves for a last stand of desperate battle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the syncopation in the third measure, the longest note doesn't even begin on a beat; it begins half-way through the third beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You made it the longest,” she replies, “and that’s usually a very good sign.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stared at my screen for the longest ten minutes of my life, willing it to change from “delivered” to “read.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Right. And a triangle whose longest side is at the bottom. So what is different about the feel of this painting?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Baby Sister Fifi held that title the longest, though Sandi, with her good looks and many opportunities, gave her some competition. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was the closest, longest look I’d gotten at a wight since Dr. Golan. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Getting to B-block is the longest walk; it’s the remotest part of the “max” jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper and Jason...he’d known them the longest, but the others were important to him too. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time we hit our teens, it was a competition to see who could stay in bed the longest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen seconds between the third and the fourth, which is the longest space. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Woolf, the longest shadow on his life surfaced a few years into his career. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s legs were the longest and he reached the top of the hill first. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The blackboard stood near the end of the longest of the tables. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the longest this brat’s been quiet in her whole life.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the longest I ever stayed still in my life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One time we’d been seeing who could stand on their head the longest, and when it had been Mop’s turn, Bren had said he looked like a mop cleaning the floor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After the longest time, I could smell water and Mr. Leroy eased up some on Jingle Boy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The next longest wave that fits is the second harmonic, or the first overtone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I was lying down all alone in the dark, I couldn’t get comfortable for the longest time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home I stood by our window and stared at our neighbor’s goldfish for the longest time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards ahead, tied to the end of the longest dock, was a makeshift raft with a simple mast and a square canvas sail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I reckon Grandpa found her mouth before God could answer, because for the longest time the only sounds I heard were little moans and gasps and Grandpa’s hard breathing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He might have led the bloodiest and longest killing spree. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the eastern areas where the beetles have been longest established, attempts have been made to set up natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I probably stood there for under a minute, but, to this day, it was one of the longest minutes of my life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s taking you the longest time to graduate,” protested Sissy good-naturedly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, what was to become the longest continuously enduring scientific society in the world had already begun to meet in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thus ended the longest hour of my life. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the longest evening she had ever lived through. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stood beneath that tree for the longest time, hoping to catch sight of the bird who was singing such a song. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

First, I pulled a striped green seersucker for my center pentagon, put a piece of strawberry-print cotton on the longest side, and kept going until I had my own perfectly mixed-up square. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The longest blackout ever had been three minutes and fourteen seconds. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the two I had to get, ’cause one was the longest and one was the shortest, and that he didn’t use either one after dinner, when the night watch came on. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the most complicated part of the spacecraft, and took the longest time to learn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a Farmer's Almanack that tells the longest day of the year, June 12. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing ever like them. He hits the longest ball I have ever seen.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted here and there—Aspen, Colorado, was the town where he holed up the longest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Melanie scratched the ends of the eyelashes loose with her longest fingernail, and then April pulled them the rest of the way off. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I make it through the longest hour of my life. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The longest river in the world, the Nile flows through the length of Sudan, then through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos stares at me for the longest time. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I wished her luck in the rest of the competition, but before pressing Send, I stared at the screen for the longest time because I would need to know if she read it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The day before yesterday, Safer and I took our longest walk yet, just the two of us, to my old house. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Hey, come on. We can set some kind of world’s record— you know, longest donkey ride ever made for a cold beer or something like that. An Indian world’s record.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turned, startled, and found myself looking down the barrel of the longest rifle I had ever seen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For decades the instructions have been missing; each year they have to figure out the order in which the branches must be inserted, the longest ones at the bottom, the smallest at the top. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma carried him in to his room and stayed there whispering to him for the longest time. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We sit at the longest table in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The longest points east by northeast or about 70 degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the longest she had ever been in chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, for years after he should have known better, Will really believed he had won. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A typical whale song lasts for perhaps fifteen minutes; the longest, about an hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to give him the longest, loudest MOO in the history of the planet. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The longest I’ve held my breath is six and a half minutes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He decided to return to his friend’s stable by the longest route possible. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow canine thus coyly revealed was as long as my longest finger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya and I stare at him for the longest. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The longest stretch, atop the hillside, runs roughly parallel to the riverbank, a few hundred feet below; extensions at either end angle down the hillside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it's the longest day in the history of long days. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

This ruling was remarkable given that, prior to the Drug Reform Act of 1986, the longest sentence Congress had ever imposed for possession of any drug in any amount was one year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I swore I was behind on the puberty game since I haven’t even grown a mustache, but Dylan’s actually the freak show here—handsome freak show. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That was the longest time I think anybody had ever heard Bicycle Bill talk. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Composers at the very cutting-edge of change are rarely the ones whose music lasts longest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I fought the longest boxing round of my life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Joey made me quit sobbing so we could see what Dad was going to do, but for the longest time there were no sounds from the living room. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Ma had been waiting the longest time—it was after midnight now—watching the police start to haul in all these other types they had busted. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I reach up and pull out the longest one. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He lay in silence for the longest time, looking at the stars and listening to the soft murmurs of various conversations drifting across the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph goes on the longest journey of all and has more troubles, but the Lord watches over him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on the longest string of beads, which were blue, and a pair of blue bracelets, which exactly fitted my wrists, and walked down the shore, admiring myself. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, it seemed like there was no sound at all except the rain dripping through the trees above us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I watch it crawl down the street for the longest time till I get the sense to alert somebody. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All the same, Farid listened in vain that night, the longest night of his life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And she looked longest at Lennie, until he dropped his eyes in embarrassment. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monkeys are really nasty, he wrote, which made me so sad, because I had wanted a pet monkey for the longest time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Congo is the second longest river in the world, its breadth is almost more impressive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the longest hour of my life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was probably the longest period of time he remained idle on his boat in the history of the Clara Belle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, for the longest time, I just kept sinking free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it stays put for millions of years–37 million years appears to be the longest stretch–and at other times it has reversed after as little as 20,000 years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He tried for the longest time to get a reaction out of her. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In a way, it seemed as though this was the longest part of the journey—from the top of the bluff to the bottom of the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen minutes seemed like the longest minutes ever as she waited for James to come down. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I thought she meant that the other kids were going to steal me, but she was talking about the police. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The - Nile - is - the - longest - river - in - Africa - and - second ...” “Then which river is the longest, Tommy?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

During one such game, Babe Ruth hit what has been purported to be his longest home run ever, 620 feet, over the prison wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not exaggerating when I say this, but my heart literally started beating like I’d just run the longest race in the world. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Emily sometimes suspected her parents had an unspoken competition about who could ignore the moving boxes the longest. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris said the time between Christmas and spring was always the longest time of the year. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took her the longest time to raise the window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s the longest thing that’s ever happened to me, and right now it feels like the best. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were probably laughing, relieved to be off by themselves for the longest vacation of their married lives. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It had been a few months since I’d seen her, the longest time ever between visits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon at school was the longest ever. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would you believe that in the original Morgenstern this is the longest single chapter in the book? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that this is the longest time we’ve ever spent alone together in all the years we’ve known each other. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They were on the longest ride between stations. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, the longest keg stand in Winter Park history is sixty-two seconds,” she explained. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t come this far only to fail the ones I’ve known longest and care for most. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, in the seconds that seemed longest, the truck bounced, shimmied, and slowly trailed up the dirt and gravel driveway of our great-grandmother’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

After the longest fifty-two minutes I can remember, I corner Roger at his desk before he can even stand up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And let me have none of your tricks here,” said Mr. Trabb, “or you shall repent it, you young scoundrel, the longest day you have to live.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

While there’s only a few stops after ours, it always feels like the longest ride. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Well now, which is the longest river in Africa?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This has been the longest and most exciting day of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The record for the longest section hike is forty-six years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I puffed out my chest a bit, remembering that I still had the longest braids, even in this larger group. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

That was the longest amount of time we were away, but there was rarely a time when our lives weren’t interrupted in some way by war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Three weeks exactly: my longest dry spell in years. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took my hand and stared at it for the longest time. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was, I realized, the longest conversation we had had in two or three days, but there was no need to say anything more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These were the worst, only because they usually lasted the longest for no reason at all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he held me by the head, hugged me to him for the longest time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She stood for the longest kind of time, staring from one to the other of the expensive tombstones for live men. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were all fairly short—the longest was four and a half minutes, Lina had heard—but there had never been so many so close together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to have the longest handle and a good strong fork on the end,” I say, “because that was the biggest, meanest snake I ever saw in my life.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So one night would be the longest we could stay, but one night would be enough. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen her since her house last Wednesday, which is the longest we’ve gone without seeing each other all year, except for during Christmas, when she visited her aunt in Cincinnati. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The next game was the longest ever played in the history of the World Series—over three hours of hard hitting and fielding and running at Ebbets Field. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

These months mark the longest we have ever been separated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was having one of those days and it turned into the longest month of my life. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We wondered: Is he looking for the world’s longest The Verse to give Leah on the subject of impudence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was the longest stretch of straight road in the district, nearly a mile of asphalt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hennacy also talked her into joining the longest peace march in history, from San Francisco to Moscow, and she agreed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The longest of these embedded clauses, the third and the last, are also with commas or with or. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen minutes seemed like the longest minutes ever as she waited for James to come down. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All I’ve done for the longest time is take my meds and go through my stupid to-do lists, trying to stay alive for as long as possible. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I guess a good starting point would be the longest journal I’ve ever written in English class. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, I didn’t care whether or not I knew my birth father. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Three crews lived aboard Skylab, the longest for eighty-four days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She was sticking out at him the longest, reddest tongue he had ever seen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the longest branch she could find ablaze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To instill a sense of loyalty to the Angkar and break what the Khmer Rouge views as an inadequate urban work ethic, the new people are given the hardest work and the longest hours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tab’s longest continuous juggle lasted about thirty seconds. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

For the longest time he’s had a small, elite team, but now everyone wants to fence. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was the part of our Stonehenge that took the longest time to create. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But as the two boys watched from their covert looking post, the thing that held their fascination the longest was the fact that they had advanced to within striking distance of a police car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensational Beecher-Tilton trial proved to be the longest and most publicized trial of its time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She presses her lips to my forehead and keeps them there for the longest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now he was leaving, and she would become Elder, the tallest tree, with the longest memory. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“This is the longest driveway in the world!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was the longest one he had ever seen, with almost two hundred freight cars and a locomotive at either end and a third one in the middle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They unwound the longest coil of rope they had, tying each horse to it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s loud enough that you’d be hearing it and nothing else for the longest if you didn’t shove something in your ears. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Can you show me the longest number there is?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The longest wave that fits it is called the fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Where they could stand on the blue mailboxes like pedestals or see who could balance the longest on the tip-top of a fire hydrant. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

This day felt like the longest day of my life. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some of them ended abruptly only a few miles in; the longest followed the river Nir north, and then ended just south of where the Nir intersected with the Kell, which flowed east. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After the longest three minutes of my life, Supreme takes his earbuds from his ears, unplugs them from my phone, and hands my phone back to me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple stared at him for the longest minute. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I couldn’t bring myself to read it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t make any friends in Highlands North for the longest time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The huge blazes were meant to light the way during this longest night of the year, so Inti would see the path to come back to us. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I remember it was in the spring when the days was longest, for the light was coming through the window and there weren’t no lantern going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the longest hair of anybody on the panel by far. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear Mr. C. and Mr. Miller talking and laughing for the longest time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the longest prison sentence in modern British history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And waited through the longest minute that had ever gone by in the history of Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our latrine was probably neutral territory, but on the points of bathing and washing we were unenlightened for the longest time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had the longest eyelashes Matthias had ever seen, the brightest eyes, the softest fur, the whitest teeth.... Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You know, this is the longest he’s ever stayed in one place before trying to run away.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Your largest and longest trees are wanted, and the arms of them for Knees and Rising Timber. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I use to be a little fra-gile, but I ain’t been afeared of nonsense nor run off screaming ’bout the littlest things for the longest time. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Sekani always talks the longest because he gives every single detail. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, from almost day one at this school, it seemed that I was the only one who cared about me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I called you. Every day. The phone rang without answer, and then one day it stopped ringing altogether. Had to wait the longest time before I could get word you were all right.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He felt a terrible desire boiling up within him, a fire impossible to quench, a thirst for Clara that would never, even on the longest and most passionate nights, be satisfied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

That Sunday was one of the longest days ever. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He stood by the window for the longest kind of a time, then knelt down by the windowsill and covered his face with his hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her own first things kept lasting longest in her brain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was the longest I hadn’t thought about her for a while. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And yet for the longest time I’ve felt extremely lonely, left out, neglected and misunderstood. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He said that he had the longest list of people waiting to grab the shack at any price. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the longest time at Kang’s stall, and the other potters gave up all pretense of indifference. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Motion caught her eye, and she spotted a small bird hovering among the flowers, flitting from one to the next to alight on the longest petal, thrusting its beak into one after another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I just went on in and sat through the longest biology class I have ever had in my life. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our earliest and longest debates concerned the relationship between the ANC and the Communist Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl had been in Hooverville the longest so she got to tell the rest of us what to do. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It must have been the longest tail of any rat alive. He held it in his claw as if it were a whip.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If you are enjoying the connection, time goes quickly. If you aren’t, it’s the longest six minutes of your life,” she said as she watched the couples nervously chatter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I watched as Grandma considered this for the longest ten seconds of my life. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

—Eating spaghetti at your house on Saturday night and having “worm-slurping” contests to see who could suck the longest piece of spaghetti. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I select the longest of the glass shards and slip it carefully into my back pocket. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is the longest of the corridors we will travel through, but that distance shrinks when I see him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The longest gun belonged to the commander of the Biafran side, a tall stern child with sharp cheekbones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was the longest I’d ever been away from home, and I have to say it was so amazing to suddenly be free of all that stuff that made me so mad. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was Okeoma, who came most often and stayed the longest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we’re done with the world’s longest conversation on the blue wildebeest, he pats the couch and I sit down next to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She had been away from her mother the longest, and for her the trip had become wearisome and sad. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Aside from a few trips to summer camp, this was the longest I'd ever been away from home, and I like to think I was toughened by the experience. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The longest day of my life began tardily. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They stared into the fire for the longest of their silences. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave our mother a long hug, too, but she gave my father the longest hug of all, as if to say, You'd better treat my mother right. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After the longest time, a colored man in a white coat covered with smears and specks of blood walked into the park and come right to us. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Vonetta fiddled with her hair band or twirled her longest braid around her finger. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hesitates, chews it for the longest time, winces as it goes down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The longest, boniest thing the nurses had ever seen.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pause to stare the length of Aleppo Way—the longest stretch of our journey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like the longest windshield wiper ever, and it whipped our house and windows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We spent the longest afternoon I can ever remember listlessly reading and staring out at the pattering rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was the longest string of words he had uttered in months, but it suddenly dried up, as if he just couldn’t find any more to say. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AT is no longer the longest hiking trail—the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, both out West, are slightly longer—but it will always be the first and greatest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday is his longest day at the diner. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

King Joffrey laughed longest and loudest of all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jay stares at the money for the longest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The burger lasts longest, especially if it’s heaped with gut- puckering jalapenos, but by midnight my stomach is growling again. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, our enemy had gathered us all together under one roof for what became the largest and longest unbanned meeting of the Congress Alliance in years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right on the heels of the shriek was the longest, highest wail I had ever heard. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The different wavelengths of light are what the human eye sees as different colors, with the longest wavelengths appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the shortest wavelengths at the blue end. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my desk is the little bamboo plant in the blue- swirly dish Melissa gave me for my last birthday, and my computer with the longest, hardest-to-spell password I could think of: “anthropological.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These seconds were the longest of Lazlo’s life, and the heaviest with fate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She just stares at me without blinking for the longest time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She stares at the ceiling for the longest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whichever quarter knocks the other quarter over, or lasts the longest, wins. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the longest wait of my life. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to get through speaking for two whole minutes in front of an audience, which I think is the longest ever. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The creature behind them jerked and moaned, and Harry and Dumbledore sat without talking for the longest time yet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I think it was the longest sentence I ever heard him speak. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with the passing of the woman who lived there longest and loved him best, the house was feeling a peculiar sense of loss. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Lab mix in kennel 8 has been at the shelter the longest, 18 days, but should be adopted between 16 and 20 days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby slept well and soundly, the day just finished having been the longest and hardest she had ever known. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Spring is finally burgeoning after the longest winter, and the birches' new leaves turn their faces toward the sun's warmth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Nile: the longest river in the world, the mother of all life in Sudan. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Persian beak, the long wings in which the first primary was the longest, and the mighty talons: all were the same, but, as Mandeville observed, the whole eight times bigger than a lion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The record started and I began to lip-synch the longest song of my life. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It won’t really entail much work, licking the stamps is the longest job.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The final stretch of the trip—from deep water to the beach in a small rowboat—seemed to take the longest of all. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Six years was the longest we'd lived in any house, and I had become hopelessly attached to our San Jose neighborhood. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the story that occupied my mind for the longest time, the story that I retold over and over, was about a baby elephant named Boo. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the longest, people acted like I was my dad’s clone. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a little past midnight, and that was the longest car ride of my life. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was the longest trek Milkman had ever made in his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was the longest day of my life,” he said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The problem was for the longest no regular cars slowed for us either. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"That was the longest weekend of my life," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

For what seems like the longest moment ever, the two of them glare at each other. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After the longest morning of my life, I printed out all the letters I’d written, signed them and started delivering them face to face, like a man, like a soldier. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoever can keep their paper plane aloft the longest wins.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I found the longest antenna rod I had, so I could reach into the smooth area without having to step on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just swerve and swoop for the longest minute of my life. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She took the longest time to say anything else. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The longest it took me to find my own family was about two weeks. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last four days had seemed to last a lifetime, but these final moments were the longest. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, the building of the longest footpath in the world attracted almost no attention. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“This was to have been the longest Patricia and I had been together in three years.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was the longest sentence I had said, and he seemed taken aback. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“This is the longest Wednesday in the history of man,” I say to Frank S., who is sitting in his favorite spot on the bench by the back patio door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And in 1962,” I said, looking up from the paper and bemoaning my fate, “the longest grounding of a boy named Jack continues to go unnoticed by history.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To accomplish this, and to assure themselves the longest possible run, they got themselves inside all the rest of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longest she had been away was a week when she went to visit her cousin Ruth, who had cancer, but Ruth lived in Manchester. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Africa is the continent where protohumans evolved for the longest time, where anatomically modern humans may also have arisen, and where native diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed European explorers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Noah made a contest out of seeing who could pull off the longest strip. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “Morning, y’all. This here’s the Taylors, just come up from Arkansas. Been hearing ’bout us for the longest. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the records belonged to Antoine Thomas, but Erik Fisher was in there for the longest field goal, the highest field-goal percentage in a season, and the most extra points in a season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he didn’t say anything for the longest time, and then he shrugged and said, “I’m used to kids saying mean things about the way I walk.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, as the hours crept toward midday, the shadows of temple columns grew shorter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes. Julian was last. His journey has been the longest." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said a little too loud, excited to hear her voice after what had been the four longest days of my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Eight of the hands were currently pointing to the “home” position, but Mr. Weasley’s, which was the longest, was still pointing to “work.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The first day in the desert felt like the longest day Salva had ever lived through. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t get a job for the longest time, ’cause he’s an ex-con. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, I probably got the longest list of excuses for missing homework of anyone alive. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, it kept us together. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Being a Lriday late in June, this was one of the longest evenings of the year, so no one felt in a rush to finish. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It occurred on the longest night, the night when Inti could choose to leave the people forever. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

With the longest one I could find, I hurried back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed at herself: well, it was the longest on record—longer than elephants and nothing to show for it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Want to have a contest to see who can stand on their head the longest? I’ll let you win.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slap it, but she pulls me across her lap and plants the longest, sloppiest kiss on my cheek, like she would do when I was little. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And hearing it was like hearing the world's longest whistle blow, shrill, shredding his eardrums. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, it was probably the longest time we’d ever spent together without talking. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had the longest hair I’d ever seen, a cascade the color of field mice that fell to her knees when she took it out of its tight bun. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sat there and stared at the e-mail for the longest time, feeling my cheeks burning. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Guinness World Records recognized him in 2012 as the male entertainer with the longest television career. Bruce Forsyth, 89, Cheeky Fixture of British TV, Is Dead 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The last and longest eased them into more involved exchanges. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z

Catherine the Great is remembered for being Russia's longest ruling female head-of-state – a fact – and for allegedly banging a horse, a rumor addressed in the fourth episode, "Moscow Mule." "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

The denizens of Epcot would be passing through, longer-term tourists, staying for a few months at the longest. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z

Diogenes Laertius devotes one of his longest chapters to Zeno of Citium, whose subsequent disciples, including Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, are central to Ward Farnsworth’s “The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

By far the longest section of this 45-minute work is the third and final one, “Icy Variations,” which stretches a Bach-style chorale theme to glacial expansiveness, wandering through subtle, organic shifts. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

If completed, it will be the longest set of Silent Servant’s career and an electronica occasion of exhaustion and transcendence, certainly in that order. Pop & Rock Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:17:01Z

This painting is “Leonardo’s testament,” according to Mr. Delieuvin — the one on which he worked the longest. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

And their first rapturous, floor-rolling, limb-entwining, passion-dazed duet — which contains what may be the longest, most acrobatic kiss ever sustained while dancing — finds an intensity equal to the great balcony scene pas de deux. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

This is the longest recession in modern history, and when people say that they’re worn down, their dentists say it’s literally true. 2010-02-13T04:51:00Z

Related: Spectre rumoured to be longest James Bond movie yet “We set the record for smashing up cars on Spectre,” Gary Powell, Spectre’s chief stunt coordinator, told the newspaper. View to a bill: £24m of cars written off in making of James Bond movie Spectre 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Shostakovich Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z

The longest of the dashes — roughly the length of the letter “M” — the em dash is emphatic, agile and still largely undefined. The Em Dash Divides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

But in May this year, Massey was released; after nearly 43 years in jail, he was the UK’s longest serving prisoner. 'You start getting bitter': what I learned from 43 years in prison 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Scheinert: For the longest time, there was one that was gonna be a really dusty windowsill or an AC unit, where there's like visible dust. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s the longest international boundary in the world, and was the setting for a great deal of momentous early American history. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The American Border (Not That One) 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Seeing our penchant for speed, our guide took us all over the resort to some of the longest, steepest groomers we could find. Take the hassle out of your ski vacation with an all-inclusive resort 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s the longest and heaviest plane ever built. The World's Biggest Airplane Blew Up Twitter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The company, which last performed live on March 11, now hopes to return with a gala on New Year’s Eve after its longest interruption in more than a century. The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Fall Performances 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Four years later, he still works there, which he says is the longest he’s ever held a job. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

Everyone had their own reason for being there – typically a variant on wanting to live the longest, happiest life possible – and they were hoping to pick up some tips for their quest. Self-tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs 2012-11-24T00:05:29Z

The Met returned from the longest shutdown in its 138-year history when it opened the season with Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” from 2019, its first work by a Black composer. Aucoin’s ‘Eurydice,’ modern retelling of myth, opens at Met 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

And the moment I saw David Schwimmer do the longest take ever, I was hooked. 'Jennifer Aniston cried in my lap': the inside story of Friends 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

The first edition of “Observations” also contains the longest, most famous version of Moore’s most famous poem: “Poetry,” the one that begins, “I, too, dislike it.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Serve with the best basmati rice you can find – ask for the longest grain at your Asian grocer – and chutney. Season's eating: fresh turmeric and chicken curry 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

First up is William Tell, Rossini's final and by some distance longest stage work, a panoramic and highly romanticised sweep through the history of medieval Switzerland, and its struggle against rule. This week's new live music 2011-07-15T23:06:53Z

In 2011, it earned the honorific “America’s longest war,” displacing Vietnam, perhaps the craziest war we’d engaged in before this one. “War Machine” reveals the mentality behind America’s longest war — and the maddest of them all 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

When this South American virtuoso was here last, I dubbed him a “top-tier cellist,” and he resoundingly reaffirmed that Thursday, conquering the longest and most difficult concerto in the standard repertoire: the Prokofiev “Sinfonia Concertante.” NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking

Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote in 1944 that time is the longest distance between two places. The illusions of advertising 2013-05-16T21:35:00Z

The marathon is eligible to become a Guinness World Records record-holder for longest variety show ever. Cabaret Cram Session Aims at a World Record 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

South Korea has one of the longest histories of sending babies away for adoption. Don't believe the K-dramas: Look to "Return to Seoul" for a more realistic view on Korean adoptees 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

The collection’s longest story, “An Exotic Marriage,” is more of a novella, and explores physical transformation as a metaphor for the shifting of identities in a relationship. Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

As for the awards representation of superheroes, a group Hollywood greedily embraces without fail, “Deadpool,” perhaps the longest shot of nominees, is now an Oscars shutout. Hollywood’s Redemption Narrative 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s taken me the longest time to realize the Spirit Awards have nothing to do with booze,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Michelle Williams Amid Her Independent Tribe 2012-02-26T16:16:50Z

Her longest, a multimedia project on the homeless, took seven years. Indonesia’s Maverick Performance Artist 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He spoke for two hours, delivering the longest inaugural speech in history. Berkeley Plantation, where George Washington danced ’til dawn  2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

He went onto star in another six films as 007 over a period of 12 years, making him the longest running actor in the role. Roger Moore – Saint, Persuader and the suavest James Bond – dies aged 89 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

His tenure as music director equaled that of the orchestra’s founding music director Emil Oberhoffer for the longest tenure in that position. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who led Minnesota Orchestra for 19 years, dies at 93 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Athletes is the hardest of the four to watch but lingers longest in the memory. The Place prize – review 2013-04-23T17:58:59Z

And on Dec. 19, the Oratorio Society of New York, continuing one of the Hall’s longest performance streaks, will perform Handel’s “Messiah,” as it has almost every year since 1891. A Guide to NYC Holiday Events: Live Music, Theater, Lights and More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

I think I jumped up and just hugged her for the longest time. ‘10 Things I Hate About You’: When Heath Ledger Was Just Breaking Through 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

That’s always the part of the album that takes the longest and it’s because I’m adding or subtracting until the last minute.” Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are 2012-04-26T21:34:00Z

This fun, funky motel on Route 66, not far from Vegas, has the world’s longest Route 66 map and the rooms are all themed on iconic celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Kitsch American motels: readers’ tips 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

His first few days on the set felt like the longest of his life. William H Macy: ‘I’m scared and horny like a 14-year-old-boy’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Running more than a half-century in London’s West End, it is the longest continuously performed play in history. The Village’s ‘Mousetrap’ isn’t so snappy | Theater review 2013-01-24T23:05:16Z

Last week, "Frozen" ousted the soundtrack of Walt Disney Co's 1994 movie "The Lion King" to become the animated film soundtrack with the longest run at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. 'Frozen' reigns atop Billboard 200, holds off Future, Iggy Azalea 2014-05-01T06:46:10Z

This symphony, the longest yet written and the first to include an elaborate choral finale, presented unprecedented technical challenges. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

The Stage and the Theater contain the two longest runways, at 90 feet and 88 feet, respectively. New York Fashion Week: At New Site, No Runway Jostling 2010-09-09T06:38:00Z

Tuesday night's concert at MetLife Stadium ended four hours after it started, breaking the previous record for the group's longest U.S. show of 3 hours and 59 minutes set at MetLife last Thursday. Bruce Springsteen breaks own record for longest US show 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Jump,” the duo’s debut single, was the No. 1 song in the country for eight weeks, at the time the longest run for a hip-hop song. Chris Kelly of the Duo Kris Kross Dies at 34 2013-05-03T01:34:12Z

The longest paragraph in South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of the “immediate causes” of secession, he notes, didn’t concern the much-debated westward expansion of slavery, but northern obstruction of the return of fugitives. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Sopko oversees one of the most difficult and dangerous civilian assignments left in Afghanistan as Uncle Sam extracts himself from that 13-year slog, the longest U.S. war. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

Still, an Achilles’ heel of sorts emerged when he was asked to name the thing he had owned the longest. Possessed: A Little Respect for the Minivan 2011-06-24T19:36:12Z

An example of how the longest shots keep believing until the second those envelopes are opened? Holding Out Hope for ‘Room’ to Win the Oscar for Best Picture 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Names like the Somme and Verdun — site of the war’s longest battle and one of the costliest battles in human history — are eternal symbols of the sacrifice. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

This is officially the longest race in the world, and one of the least scenic. When 26 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

For quiet beauty, Birdoswald fort is a good bet, with walks to the east beside the longest unbroken stretch of the entire wall. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z

There the longest word honor falls to Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung: automobile liability insurance. Law change spells end for Germany’s longest word 2013-06-03T21:36:00Z

This was for me an odd and largely dissatisfying episode in addition to being, at over an hour, the longest episode to date. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Cycle” measures 57 feet at its longest point, “Junction” 75 feet; they are 14 and 13 feet high, with “Cycle” nearly brushing the front gallery’s ceiling trusses. Art Review: Richard Serra?s Sculpture at Gagosian Gallery - Review 2011-10-05T21:35:03Z

Any good writer wants the main character to have the longest journey possible because it means the audience gets to go on the longest journey. "Flight Attendant" boss on Cassie and Megan’s parallel journeys and a potential Season 2 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

I was relieved to confirm I’d be an okay fit — quite literally, if just barely — for the Wild Cave Tour, the longest, most intensive cave tour offered at the Kentucky park. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky’s underground rock star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Some are very short, and the longest runs to a doable seven and a half minutes, full of action. Playlist: Music by Nicole Mitchell, Anna von Hausswolf and Jeri-Jeri 2013-06-14T20:39:53Z

Kimmel teased the television academy for boasting that this year's red carpet will be the longest in the ceremony's history at 1,325 feet. Jimmy Kimmel rolls out red carpet as Emmy host 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

We were sitting in the middle of the pandemic, like, gosh, this is the longest, most depressing time of our lives, and then we made it to last night. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

If unsure about all those days spent doing the Trans-Siberian, get just a taste on Europe’s longest sleeper train. 10 of the best sleeper trains in Europe 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The closing chapter, the longest, reflects on what it all means for the reader. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Surrealism, the curators say, was a desperate cry as the world plunged into one of its longest nights. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

But after the longest, hottest summer in imagination, I've been itching to go as all out on coziness as possible, down to my desserts. Decadent pumpkin blondies are the best way to embrace sweater weather season 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

His “Monument,” the evening’s only group piece and its longest, is its own species, only incidentally showing any echoes of dance history. Review: A Rare Dive Into the History of Dance Pioneers 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

DiscUSPS:Contestants vie for the longest throw — measured in time to destination. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Decent People,” the longest story, takes place during a demonstration in Sofia. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The basic premise of "Big Brother" remains the same: The houseguests will be vying to linger the longest in the house. 'Big Brother' returns for a new season in aftermath of cast turmoil 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

But the thing he wanted most was lost with the sale of Tao House, his longest, and most peaceful, home. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

While he fluffed the first shot, the second may well have been the longest drive in history, thanks to the reduced gravity. Dinosaur toys and golf clubs: the strange things astronauts take to the moon 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z

The next few weeks were the longest and hardest weeks of our lives. Perspective | Our baby died after I carried him for 23 weeks. A simple test could have saved his life. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

In what the producer calls the “longest millisecond” of his life, he recalls his elation at the green light turning to horror as Mr. Chaganty said no. The Sleeper Hit That Makes the Most of Screen Time 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Even today, she says, most people know little about the world's longest river. Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z

Vita’s son later described the novel as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature.” Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

At a time when everyone is jockeying to be seen and heard in the town square — whether the virtual one or the old-fashioned one — Rogers counsels shouting loudest and longest of all. Perspective | Designer Christopher John Rogers is determined to be heard. His volume is set at deafening. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Beyond that is the Palmer Lift, which soars on up to 8,500 feet and often enables skiing in every month of the year — the longest ski season in North America, on Oregon’s highest peak. At least once in your life, you’ve got to ski Oregon’s Timberline 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

As of Tuesday, the Trump White House will set a record for the longest stretch without a briefing, 43 days. What to do about Sarah Sanders? White House reporters have a few ideas. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Alan and Sam's tortured tale ends a 46-minute installment, the longest in a 10-episode drama that tells its harrowing story in chapters that for the most part clock in under 30 minutes apiece. "The Patient" creators on using Holocaust imagery when antisemitism is spiking: "It feels true" 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

During his year aboard the International Space Station, the longest space mission in American history, astronaut Scott Kelly received a call from his daughter. When astronaut Scott Kelly told Bill Nye about space 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Outside of Florence, it’s the longest non-mortared wall in America and it’s on this sacred Native American site. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

When you talk about a piano concerto with such words as “longest” and “most difficult,” people tend to be put off. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni

It’s the longest relationship either one of us has ever had. ‘Broad City’ Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Before I Got Here” is the longest song that the gonzo-punk trio Palberta has ever written — which isn’t saying a whole lot, since it’s only three and a half minutes long. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

For the longest time, she never even saw a live clown act. It’s the worst time in history to be a clown. They just want you to love them again. 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

I have to time it perfectly, working as long as I can without actually fainting – the longest I’ve lasted is an hour and a half, when I’m not doing highly physical work. Ebola: life and death on the frontline 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Rob Roussel described the band as "one of the original holy trinity of British punk" Punk legends Buzzcocks are to headline the Channel Islands' longest running music festival, the Vale Earth Fair. Buzzcocks to headline Earth Fair 2013-05-10T13:13:29Z

In his mid-70s, he's still working, the longest serving PA announcer in the United Kingdom. Hey "Ted Lasso": The surprising soccer chant history of "Hey Jude" 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast to the neighboring spring break mecca, this oasis on the Gulf of Mexico offers 48 campsites amid the longest undeveloped stretch of barrier island in the world. These Are America's Prettiest Beach Campsites 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

From a strictly culinary perspective, though, I must admit: chicken noodle soup wasn't my absolute favorite for the longest time. This unexpected secret ingredient will radically transform your chicken noodle soup 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

The longest upload was a homemade music video, the shortest a six-second clip of a high school kid getting pushed up against a locker, laughing it off. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z

But unusually the Black Eyed Peas spent the longest amount of time on “Joints & Jam,” their first hit, from when they were as much dance crew as chipper rappers. Music Review: Black Eyed Peas Play Central Park Benefit Concert - Review 2011-10-02T21:57:48Z

From Key Largo to Key West, the overseas highway strings the islands together like beads, running past lighthouses, underwater coral-reef parks, and across 7 Mile Bridge—one of the longest bridges in the world. These Are America's Best Road Trips 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

This is the longest and least examined of all Pynchon’s novels, a few shiny nuggets already picked over while, all along, an undiscovered mother lode waits below. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Catherine Folkers/Merchant Ivory The Guinness Book of Records notes that the 44-year collaboration between the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the American director James Ivory was the longest in the history of cinema. Richard Robbins 2012-11-13T17:45:17Z

As the barista at the downtown Starbucks said to me, “I think it’s the longest stretch of Victorian mansions in the whole country.” Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

It is the housing of these values in poems so they will exist with maximum pressure, and for the longest time. Jack Gilbert obituary 2012-11-20T14:17:57Z

The ghostlike human presence is Strachan’s memorial to a Buddhist victim of China’s occupation of Tibet, and haunting as it is, it is the exhibition image which lodges the longest in memory. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

For the longest time, books seemed too evocative for car rides, too absorbing to serve as mere accompaniment to a scenic journey. New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The longest lapse between each song is 13 seconds. Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' – interview from the vaults 2013-04-17T08:53:00Z

The endlessly dappled world of “Life,” Perec’s longest and most intricate novel, was arrived at via constraints more baroque than simply dropping a vowel. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

It’s just a shame that for the longest time they weren’t thought of as great works of literature, which they can be and are. Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

A Tamil film featuring the Bollywood star Jackie Shroff as an aging don, “Anima” is the longest but the most engaging entry in the competition. Critic?s Notebook: A Wave of Indie Angst Hits South Asian Cinema 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z

Graham's relationship with the Senate is one of the longest bonds he's ever had. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Thus began one of the longest years of my life. Buying a Blu-ray player a decision many years in the making 2011-04-05T19:59:04Z

This penchant for length should come as no surprise in a country that is also the source of a lot of our culture’s longest words, like fünfstündigenopernaufführungsangst, or “fear of five-hour operas.” Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

With a new adaptation of one of the author’s longest, most complex novels, “The Stand,” arriving Thursday on CBS All Access, King looked back at the best and worst adaptations of his stories for television. Stephen King Has Thoughts About Stephen King TV Shows 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

After 12 seasons, Two and a Half Men, the longest running live-action broadcast sitcom on broadcast television, is calling it quits. Two and a Half Men to Make Next Season Its Last 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z