Example sentences for: protracted

How can you use “protracted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Episode after episode has a pleasing shape, with wittily protracted takes and on the button punch lines.

  • Squabbles between the IRS and estates over fair market value are routine and often protracted.

  • More so than prose, however, poetry tends to explore both extremes--the concise and the protracted.

  • I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.

  • A helmet full of seawater turns out to be full of sloshing gore; a soldier with a gushing arm socket picks up his severed limb and staggers aimlessly; a man with his intestines on the outside wails through a last, protracted hemorrhage.


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