protract
verb (used with object)
to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
protractedly
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a word derived from
protract.
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a word derived from
protracted.
protractedadjectivedrawn out or lengthened in time; extended in duration.
Example Sentences
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Till, portrayed by Antonio Michael Woodard in Mosaic Theater Company’s protractedly solemn mounting, is a 14-year-old live wire with a stutter, a disability the teenager tries to overcome by breaking out into whistles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
Perhaps most memorable of all was the time when he got protractedly and perplexingly upset about a high street bakery introducing a vegan sausage roll.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2021
A generation later, the killing of George Floyd in May 2020 would spur protests that spurred corporate reckoning that spurred the Washington NFL team to scrap “Redskins” suddenly after refusing protractedly.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2020
While still at entry level to this thinking, she went to a park in Reading, England, and stared protractedly at a tree, hoping to understand it more deeply.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2016
The word "see" in John 8:51 means that the believer shall not gaze at death protractedly, steadily, exhaustively.
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans
