protract

How To Use protract In A Sentence

• I have no desire to protract the process.
• Similarly, Guinness was unhappy with the protracted walk that Lean expected him to make across the parade ground after his release from the hot box.
• Only protracted stagnation of yields brought them to a grudging retreat from farming by decree, and from Lysenko's “agrobiology,” which cast an aura of science over the Stalinist agricultural policy. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Next comes the protracted peroration on the rank of Duke versus the rank of Prince.
• To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.
• The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
• Of course, the pain associated with birthing was considered entirely natural, while the protraction of pain and suffering associated with foot-binding was altogether an intentional act of the human will.
• After protracted consideration the national government had decided to ask a mandate from the people.
• The claimant, who had been involved in bitter and protracted partnership disputes relating to the firm of solicitors of which he had formally been a partner, sued the defendant barrister for alleged negligence.
• Drug-free community" is an effective vehicle for protracted combat vs drugs.