Sample sentences for PROTRACTED

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Definition

relatively long in duration

More rarely, to protract can mean to prolong something — especially in a tedious (tiresome) manner.

protracted negotiations

bring an end to the protracted war between the countries
suffered protracted hiccups for almost a year
Let's not needlessly protract this conflict.
The first labor is usually protracted.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

protracted = long-lasting

This was Mr. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but vain endeavour to find a better one.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
I did not tell the doctor of my decision-that my death should not be a slow and protracted one as it would be in the course of nature.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
'But I also know,' pursued the old gentleman, 'the misery, the slow torture, the protracted anguish of that ill-assorted union.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
One protracted moment along the trail of nows.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
She recalled his long sad and severe look at those words and understood the meaning of the rebuke and despair in that protracted gaze.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Recovery from infections of this sort can be as rapid as the cure for tuberculosis is protracted.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
They shuddered below its horror; its protracted menace, its unsearchable enigma, deprived them of dignity and courage.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
I could see how heavily this protracted imprisonment was weighing on him.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Why this protracted war, when my commands Pronounc'd a peace, and gave the Latian lands?
Virgil -- The Aeneid
Archer paused again, and their eyes met in another protracted scrutiny.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
He took a drag and launched immediately into a protracted coughing fit that had Gholam smirking and pounding him on the back.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
, that the intermissions should not be protracted beyond a period of three years.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
"Yes, I am satisfied, marquis, I am satisfied," said Newman, with his protracted enunciation.
Henry James -- The American
Thabang's father, an electrician, died after a protracted battle against AIDS that consumed the family savings.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
We met at a late hour of the night; for our debaucheries were to be faithfully protracted until morning.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson

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