NOUN
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the act of prolonging something
there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks - the consequence of being lengthened in duration
How To Use protraction In A Sentence
- Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Many adult frogs capture prey on land using a forward lunge of the entire body in combination with protraction of a short tongue that reaches only slightly beyond the margins of the jaws.
- The essential characteristics of the national problems in China are of their importance, internationalization, complexity and protraction.
- Jaw prehension is common in aquatic frogs, often in combination with abortive tongue protraction, but suction feeding is present only in pipids.
- Nor did he analyze whether a forelimb whose major function is protraction, retraction, and rotation (in flight) can also effectively supinate, adduct, and retract in that position to achieve climbing.
- “We are both convinced,” he wrote, “ … that the only way in which the indefinite protraction of this war can possibly be prevented … is by the secret expenditure of money at the city of Mexico.” A Country of Vast Designs
- For breast cancer a loss of local control of 3% has been described for each day of protraction between external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy boost.
- Definitions of labor protraction, arrest challenged. Peace Grandmothers Embrace Health Care Issue
- Further protraction of the discussion will not achieve anything.
- Such mathematical protraction excites the studious poker mind of the Wimbledon manager.