1. While Sharpton insisted that his long-shot candidacy would prevail, his fledgling campaign looked a bit ragtag.

2. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin 

3. The measure, considered a long-shot bid, failed when the Communists could not muster enough votes to pass it.

4. Is it the thought of prizes, a tenured teaching position, the long-shot of commercial success and critical adoration?

5. Longshot: Mastering long range archery makes an army archer even more deadly.

6. She eschews small fields and has earned a reputation for unearthing longshots in competitive races.

7. Nader, who will turn 74 this week, announced his longshot presidential bid on NBC's "Meet the Press" saying that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans were addressing problems facing Americans.

8. When we first handled the device, it seemed noticeably faster to us, and even after a week with the tablet, it's still zippier than the previous model by a longshot.

9. In the MMO, when you redeem this item from Landro Longshot in Booty Bay, he'll provide you with a stack of consumable biscuits.