protract

They ruled that the medical support “serves only to protract his death, whilst being unable to prolong his life,” according to court documents.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022

The judges agreed with a lower court that continuing treatment “serves only to protract his death.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Last week, Mr Justice Hayden ruled that continued treatment was "futile" and that it "serves only to protract his death, whilst being unable to prolong his life".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

Associated Newspapers "have a right to this trial, and I think that that is just going to protract the pain for Meghan Markle," Stephens said.

From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2021

I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The episodic nature of the work protracts the ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

“If the conflict protracts, the Ukrainians have more leverage to be able to negotiate,” Watling said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

What distinguishes this pandemic as a traumatic experience, she said, is that no one knows when it will end, which protracts anxiety.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2020

Matthew Warchus's revival protracts the overall experience to three hours... at least a small part of this excess is attributable to the meal Spall makes of his lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2016

The speaking that now protracts the sittings of the House would be transferred to these; even the highest oratory would not disdain to shine where the reward of publicity would still be reaped.

From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

Any cuts at Volkswagen have to be negotiated rather than imposed, setting the scene for protracted and difficult talks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Any cuts at Volkswagen have to be negotiated rather than imposed, setting up protracted and difficult talks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Patterson's team said the chief prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers had been protracted and aggressive in a cross-examination "doused with impermissible conduct".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

This followed a protracted 41-month decline that began in late 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

These considerations, along with the just mentioned correlation between regional population size and societal complexity, have led to a protracted chicken-or-egg debate about the causal relations between food production, population variables, and societal complexity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Still he sat smoking and protracting his coffee, and haughtily playing that he was not starving for companionship.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

They would talk for the mere purpose of protracting litigation, injure their clients by vexations and bootless delays, and do their work so that they might be fed for doing it again.

From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Despite these drawbacks, he was for some years the means of protracting the gallant struggle in America and of bringing many disasters on the English arms.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd

For his, indeed, was true Youth's temperament,—summary with sadness, swift to joyfulness, and long protracting, and detaining with that joyfulness, when once it came fully nigh to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville