protracting

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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

The king, after protracting the time as long as he could, went into his coach and was safely conducted to the army, who were hastening to their rendezvous at Triplo Heath, near Cambridge.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

I am persuaded that the necessity of a fine day for swarming is one reason that has induced nature to admit of bees protracting the captivity of their young queens in the royal cells.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

—The opposite extreme of the protracting of Education beyond its proper time is necessarily the undue hastening of the Emancipation.—The question whether one is prepared for freedom has been often opened in politics.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

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 Jeaffreson, John Cordy