have protracted
- present perfect of protract.
Example Sentences
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When you have protracted response events or complex events, what you want to do is set aside a group of subject matter experts to look at the long term.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2020
“Tell me you have begun total denuclearization, because we’re not going to have protracted negotiations,” he imagined Trump telling the North Korean.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2018
The pace of Hernandez’s jog to second would have protracted the wait in a senior citizen movie ticket line.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2011
Schlesinger says that the "second strike might have protracted the stand on the beachhead from three days to ten."
From Time Magazine Archive
The young captain might have protracted his defence indefinitely had not his powder entirely failed him.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
