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"Protracted" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.
More and more divorcing couples are undertaking protracted and expensive legal proceedings for custody rights over the family pets.
Saturn's daughter, fearing it, and remembering the protracted war which she had first waged at Troy on behalf of her beloved Argives -- the causes of her anger and her fierce grievances had still not died down in her soul.
Their interview was protracted beyond that at which they usually parted.
A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956.
They reported seeing a fireball in the sky and hearing a protracted low-frequency sound.
Protracted unemployment plagues many less-skilled workers.
It was a fight down to the wire, but in the end, the tree won. The chestnut tree made famous by Anne Frank in her wartime diary was scheduled to be axed. The ruling follows a protracted battle between the city, which claimed the tree was infested with a fungus and was in imminent danger of falling, and conservationists and neighbors, who argued the tree could be saved. After an emergency court hearing Tuesday, the judge sided with the tree.
a protracted and bitter dispute
... inheritance of protracted misery ...
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The gleefully sadistic killer pushes Jaime into a fight, telling him that he slept with Cersei, and after a protracted struggle, even sinks his blade into Jaime’s side. But it turns out that a metal hand can be valuable in battle, after all, and Jaime uses it to help sink his own sword into Euron’s stomach
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