How to Use prolonged in a Sentence

prolonged

adjective

• The Greenland ice sheet is already on a prolonged path of decline.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Typhoid fever has many symptoms, such as a prolonged high fever, headache and malaise, and Mallon had none of them.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• But a prolonged strike could have unforeseen effects just the same.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• That prolonged exposure can damage the cart and its wheels.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• But with newspapers in the midst of a prolonged hiring slump, the recruitment stalled.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Some leggings tend to feel itchy when worn for prolonged hours, or pill after a few washes.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• According to experts, the current heat wave is one of the most prolonged and intense ones the state has ever seen.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
• As what had been expected to be just a short downpour turned into a prolonged storm, Schultz and others spent the night on the bus.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Keep at least 2-3 inches of the stalk attached, making your cut just above a leaf, for prolonged freshness.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• In fact, at the rate that the prolonged strikes are going, network television will likely never be the same, and fall TV could well be a thing of the past.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
• For men with high arches at the foot or those who spend prolonged periods on their feet, arch support is a must, not just a plus.
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• The result has been the most prolonged slump of his professional career.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• Even at its current size, the lake will need a year or longer to dissipate, meaning prolonged hardship.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
• The cast of Yellowstone was hardly idle during the show’s prolonged hiatus.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• The riparian brush rabbits live near the edges of rivers — not ideal for the prolonged flooding in recent months.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Farmers across Iowa were jittery about their yields because of a prolonged summer drought.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• When a patient has an infection for a prolonged period of time, the bacteria has time to change and adapt.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• And with all this screen time comes prolonged periods of sitting that have been proven to be detrimental to one’s overall health.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Health, 1 Nov. 2023
• Avoid prolonged exposure to the sun, especially in the middle of the day to prevent sunburns.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• But many hard-liners taking their cues from Trump have dug in for a prolonged fight to replace McCarthy after his historic ouster from the job.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• The prolonged pause in production seems to reinforce that doubt even further.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
• But the prolonged swelling and other physical trauma damaged her skin so much that it’s been sloughing off in the days since the incident.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Unstable bluffs and hillsides have caused prolonged passenger service shutdowns five times in the last three years in the San Clemente area.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
• Forced to spend prolonged periods of time away from his wife, Gladys (Jones), and their young daughter, Grainier struggles to make sense of his place in a rapidly changing world.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 May 2024
• Two states, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are also in the midst of prolonged fights over the future of smoking in casinos.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 3 May 2024
• Since the onset of the pandemic, the specter of a deep and prolonged recession has weighed heavily on business leaders.
  — Steve Gallucci, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
• The cooldown has followed a prolonged period of high interest rates.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2024
• Negotiators have been trying to secure a prolonged truce in exchange for the more than 120 hostages still inside the enclave.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The prolonged fight allegedly began when Majors became upset with Jabbari for going to a pub with a friend and having the friend back over to their house.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2024
• Wet socks can lead to discomfort and blisters due to prolonged exposure to moisture.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 19 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024