Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock; Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
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Protract
/pɹoʊˈtɹækt/
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Noun(2 words)
plot stallprolonged distraction
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12 total sentences available.
1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: J. and P. Knapton et al., Volume 1, Preface, I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please, have sunk into the grave […]
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I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
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A bereft landscape of sad browns and sepias of winter lay all about us, the marshland drearily protracting itself towards the wide river.
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