protracted

How To Use protracted In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• For the record: Mister Bigelow has presented a proposed stipulation of agreed facts, always appreciated in protracted cases.