How to Use protract in a Sentence

protract

verb

• Their young players are not good enough to protract the dynasty.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
• The strike would be the first in 15 years and history suggests it could be protracted.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• But this diplomatic can of worms could protract the conflict in Lebanon.
  — CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• But the road to the referendum was protracted and bloody.
  — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
• This will be bloody, long and protracted, something the coalition does not want.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
• That could take some time, that could really protract things.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
• The mean girl, the underdog, the sassy gay man, and the others, who have little function beyond protracting the process.
  — Chicago Reader, 2 Aug. 2017
• Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests were the largest and most protracted in the city’s history.
  — Ellen Bork, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• That shows just how protracted and litigious these matters can be.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The finale is protracted to the point of exhaustion, as the music hits a climactic wall and then runs into it again and again.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Hochstein said an all-out war with Hezbollah risks a much broader and protracted regional conflict, the sources said.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• The process of making sourdough is protracted, but Petrarca and Richardson said the crusty, tangy result is worth the effort.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2020
• Slowly lower your arms back to the starting position, allowing the scapula to protract and get a full stretch at the bottom.
  — Diego Mercado, Men's Health, 17 Jan. 2023
• Henley is not someone to wear the heart of the matter out on his sleeve in a rowdy atmosphere, so the moment was neither teary nor protracted.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
• If such a downturn is prolonged and protracted, months after the fact it is labeled a recession.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Then there’s more small talk and finally a protracted goodbye.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Already, the war has stretched for more than 14 months, making a yearslong protracted conflict more likely.
  — Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• The wars in both Gaza and Ukraine have shown that modern conflict is munitions-intensive and protracted.
  — Thomas G. Mahnken, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024
• On Sunday, Washington felt and beheld a day of warmth, haze and protracted sunshine.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• The result of these won't be known for at least three weeks, protracting the negotiations, which have already taken months.
  — Jeremy Wallace, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• The length may set a record for the court system in the nation’s capital and is likely among the most protracted in the history of American jurisprudence.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• The United States fought bloody and protracted wars in Korea and Vietnam and yet abstained from playing its nuclear trump card.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Emma Bovary to debt, seedy affairs and protracted death by arsenic.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
• This process is bound to be contentious and protracted as Trump and the Special Counsel’s Office are likely to have very different answers to those questions.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
• The legal contest will likely be protracted and contentious.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 17 Apr. 2024
• Cost overruns lead to projects going way over budget, and there are often protracted battles over routing.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• But as the war becomes protracted, the country also faces major structural demands.
  — Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024
• The answer is yes, but they’re not protracted conversations.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2023
• The improbable, protracted, yet oh-so-close resurrection of Tip Top Café is in a holding pattern because of two things.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Disagreements among advisers, while at times robust and protracted, have barely surfaced in the press.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024