ぶり
Meanings
Suffix
Usually written in kana
1. way; manner; style
You, too, fought splendidly.
2. (for) the first time in (e.g. ten years); after ...
How long had it been since I used this?
3. ...-sized; amount (equivalent to ...)
4. tune; tone
Pitch accent
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Top 1300
Used in vocabulary (73 in total)
it's been a long time; long time no see
way of speaking; intimation
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
Examples (26 in total)
Do you know how many years it's been?
What a grand welcome.
How long had it been since I used this?
You, too, fought splendidly.
I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.
After an absence of ten months, he returned home.
I'm satisfied with his progress.
It's been three years since I've had a real vacation.
It rained for the first time in ten days.
I can't excuse his laziness.
I set foot in my hometown for the first time in ten years.
I left my local area for the first time in a few days.
That thoroughness is worthy of respect.
It feels like we haven't seen each other in a hundred years.
It was the first time in two days that I touched the device.
We were all rather exhausted.
I don't like the way he talks.
But, judging by the way you're talking now, are you saying you won't make a career out of photography?
It had been several years since I had prayed, but my body remembered how to do it.
His incompetence began to irritate everyone.
He speaks as if he knew the criminal.
It has been a year, but she doesn't seem to have changed much.
She talks as if she knew everything.
Prof. Smith is famous for his eccentric life style.
Everybody watched the president laugh with a puzzled expression on their faces.
He looked as if he could not believe the transformation of the man standing before him.