1 His speeches tend to be rather long-winded.

2 The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.

3 I hope I'm not being too long-winded.

4 The whole process is incredibly long-winded.

5 The audience tuned out when the speaker began his long-winded speech.

6 One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.

7 Her letters do tend to be a bit long-winded.

8 Jacques launched into a long-winded explanation that left us just as confused as before.

9 That was about the longest conversation I ever had with him: Fritz at his most eloquent and long-winded.

10 That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.

11 Merton has a previously undreamed of knack of the one-minute, long-winded trainspotter diatribe.

12 Natural language is ambiguous and long-winded and these techniques are much superior.

13 One wonders what would happen should Mack apply her long-winded principles to herself.

14 But even after that long-winded exercise, a considerable amount remains.

15 Dad can be so long-winded sometimes, I cringe when he starts talking to someone new.

16 This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly.

17 I'm sick of reading badly-written and long-winded scripts by candidates who should know better.

18 But you don't need to go this long-winded way around doing it.

19 No, those long-winded gentlemen put me off sermons for a good long while.

20 Massot was a pleasant but impossibly long-winded Gaul whose briefest reminiscence about his days in the Resistance tended to last an hour.

21 It'll be a little longwinded, because there are several ways you can look at the issue, but it's interesting if you've got a basic understanding of electric current and voltage, which many people do.

22 This is a trivial matter. That's a longwinded answer to your question: I was not prepared for the amount of press that was attached to the picture because of Madame Sarkozy.

23 A first contact with John Ashbery's poems often throws readers into confusion with his multifarious, usually longwinded and discursive, verses which seem to have no distinctive characteristics at all.