long-drawn-out

[ lawng-drawn-out, long- ]
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adjective
  1. lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.

  2. of great length; long: a long-drawn-out line of soldiers.

Origin of long-drawn-out

1
First recorded in 1900–05
  • Also drawn-out, long-drawn .

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How to use long-drawn-out in a sentence

  • The best pipet is a small glass tube which has been drawn out at one end to a tip with rather small opening.

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  • How little did she realize the long drawn-out agony that was even then beginning for her sisters in that ill-fated entrenchment!

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  • During so long drawn out a suspense I tried to ease the tension by dictation.

  • Then, such an explosion and a sort of long drawn out ei-ei-ei-ei cry of horror from the Turks.

  • The feast of St. Michael's has drawn out the Portuguese gentlewomen, of whom we had not yet seen one walking in the streets.

British Dictionary definitions for long-drawn-out

long-drawn-out

adjective
  1. over-prolonged or extended

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