protraction

Example Sentences

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They can also be used to prevent “the expansion and protraction of a war,” the law says, according to the state media report.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

The sculpture had become, after all these years, about the protraction of the human foot and the celestial head.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K.’s lawyer gives him the option of filing for a Verschleppung, or  protraction.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2014

For the mandible, protraction occurs when the lower jaw is pushed forward, to stick out the chin, while retraction pulls the lower jaw backward.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It was evident that we were in a pitfall, and that resistance was only the protraction of a fate which was now inevitable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various