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

Yet, even under him, the protraction of the proceedings, and the evident shrinking from final condemnation, show how little encouragement there was for prosecutions likely to react so dangerously on the prosecutor.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles