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relatively long in durationMore 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
- 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
protracted = long-lasting
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