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n. (plural of furlong English)
Usage examples of "furlongs".
A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
Longarm agreed they were at least a couple of furlongs east of the line, and explained they were looking for a spread that branded with either an inverted sombero or a cabeza de vaca chongo.
There were strong, well-trained muscles under those silken tunics, hard bodies that saw furlongs of patrolling every day.
Outside, the cultivated furlongs stretched ten times longer than they were wide, rich with a fruitful harvest.
His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.
Virginia, or else be spurred into a winning gallop in the last furlongs of a lung-breaking, sweat-streaked steeplechase.