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How to pronounce livelong in English?

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Synonyms live-forever, orpin, orpine, sedum telephium
Type of sedum
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all the livelong day.

Examples of livelong

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I don't want to stand around skinning, deboning and pounding, but I'll chop veggies all the livelong day.
From the post-gazette.com
After working on the railroad all the livelong day, he can do whatever he wants all the livelong night.
From the dallasnews.com
Looks pretty good, especially if you need to swap out hard drives and memory cards all the livelong day.
From the techcrunch.com
The bad guys can shoot at him with submachine guns all the livelong day and he'll never suffer so much as a scratch.
From the sacbee.com
This is super good news for people who text all the time but don't like paying per-message charges, because the Peek service is unlimited so you can text and e-mail all the livelong day.
From the techcrunch.com
This time the ravaging was such that they crashed into the innermost nooks and crannies of Welford Road, the kind of parts the Tigers have never exposed to invaders in all their livelong years.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day"
  • Orpine: perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
  • Hylotelephium telephium (Orpine, Livelong, Frog's-stomach, Harping Johnny, Life-everlasting, Live-forever,From its Greek name aizoon, which means live forever - , David S. MacKenzie, Timber Press, 2002, p. ...