Sample Sentences for
protracted
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    The general's shattered hip—and all of the ensuing complications, the pneumonia, blood poisoning, the protracted stay at the nursing home—ended Khala Jamila's long-running soliloquies about her own health.  (source)
    protracted = long in duration
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    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.  (source)
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    But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun.  (source)
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    Another pause, more protracted, and then — "Without Harry Potter?" breathed the second voice softly.  (source)
    protracted = long in duration
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    An hour later I was in the man box, and Shawn and Luke were standing on either end of a beam, twenty feet in the air. I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract.  (source)
    protract = extend
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    She finally complied out of fear of being charged with protracting the public calamities and endangering the outcome of the war.†  (source)
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    By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The first labor is usually protracted.  (source)
    protracted = long-lasting
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    The delicate-handed gentleman was a match for the workman in everything but strength, and Arthur's skill enabled him to protract the struggle for some long moments.†  (source)
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    Every now and then, as his companion looked up at him, she reminded him of an ancient tabby cat, protracting the enjoyment of a dish of milk.†  (source)
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    There was a protracted silence, then a multiple hissing of voices: "A Bene Gesserit witch!"†  (source)
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    Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.†  (source)
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    Nor was her pliancy in the end effected by a less motive, than the fear of being chargeable with protracting the public calamities, and endangering the event of the contest.†  (source)
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