Definition of "dayslong" []

• Freleng, Isadore Known as "Friz.” 1905-1995. American animator who, during his career with Warner Brothers, created such classic cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

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• "One report by a U.S. interrogation detention team based in Baghdad on April 2, 2009, summarizes claims made by a prisoner who said he was hog tied and beaten with a shovel as part of dayslong torture ordeal at the hands of the Iraqi army."
• "Many of the journalists were among those released the day before from a dayslong siege at a different hotel, the Rixos."
• "Obama commented after BP officials reached the disappointing conclusion that a dayslong effort to stop the flow of oil, known as a "top kill," by packing the well with mud had failed."