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

This animal forms a separate genus of Gray, following Professor Peters' Arctogale, on account of the smallness of the teeth and the protraction of the palate.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage