ADJECTIVE
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existing for a long time
a long-lasting friendship
hopes for a durable peace
How To Use long-lived In A Sentence
- Garden irises are hardy, long-lived perennials that need a minimum of care.
- The business value of a message might be long-lived or it may vanish in seconds (tortoises and hares).
- This appellation is undergoing much-needed revival but old vintages suggest that the potential for long-lived, concentrated reds is there.
- Contrast this to the bellbird, a long-lived tropical bird in which individuals come to know one another well.
- In addition, government cannot finance long-lived public capital expenditures with borrowing.
- The fastest disturbance dynamo effect in numerical simulation is apparent within an hour or two of onset of geomagnetic activity, which could become confused with apparent long-lived penetration on the nightside. More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit
- The flexible polyamine spermine displays a high presence in the minor groove but does not form long-lived and structurally defined complexes.
- How much delay in approaching efficiency can be expected from the existence of long-lived buildings on most urban land?
- It's a floriferous and long-lived plant. Times, Sunday Times
- The protonema is usually filamentous, and in some of the simplest forms is long-lived, while the small plants borne on it serve mainly to protect the sexual organs and sporogonia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"