protracted

How To Use protracted In A Sentence

• Next comes the protracted peroration on the rank of Duke versus the rank of Prince.
• The Iowa caucuses of 2008 were not the end of our long national nightmare about race, but another stage in our protracted national nightmare of piety, “uplift,” and deceptive optimistic windbaggery. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Christopher Hitchens Unloads On Barack Obama
• 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
• The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
• 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.
• However, look at that long nose, big barbels hanging off the protracted snout and you know you're after the real thing.
• Whether these fast-tracked primaries have rushed the party into the nomination of a candidate that will prove vulnerable in the course of a more protracted and intense campaign is unclear.