protract
Example Sentences
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The director allows her protagonist’s pain to protract and pulsate without narrative fuss; even scenes of turmoil unspool with a deliberate delicacy.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
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
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