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    Use "prolonged" in a sentence

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    prolonged


    1. the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged


    2. However, when stress levels increase and become prolonged, feelings of exhaustion, debilitation and inadequacy begin to set in along with various physical side effects


    3. Prolonged exposure to it can prematurely


    4. Medical doctors account for the strengthening of the immune system after prolonged use


    5. The bonds between them have remained strong in spite of Billy's frequent and sometimes prolonged absences


    6. ” After a silence which was so prolonged George and Belle both began to wonder if communication had at last been severed with their cherished counsellors, finally Lizette spoke for all


    7. Groggy from a bad night, she hauled herself out of bed and, after a prolonged session under the shower – thankfully, Kev had lit the boiler and there was hot water – she went off to prepare breakfast


    8. The weary cynicism that comes through prolonged exposure to other people's stupidity and mean-faced barbarism


    9. Harold threw himself into paving the way for his now foreseen prolonged absence


    10. However, the FoxO virus/gene seems to repair your shattered heart microsecond by microsecond, thus allowing you to function at massively increased rates of strength and speed for relatively prolonged periods of time

    11. The term, during which such a lease can be granted, as will be valid against every future purchaser or proprietor of the land, has been prolonged from nine to twenty-seven years


    12. “We couldn’t have done anything anyway,” replied Chris, “Resuscitating her would only have prolonged her agony, if it had worked at all given the condition she’s in


    13. However, the immortal blood , her prolonged exposure to it, seems to have changed her DNA


    14. Stopping there prolonged our journey by one day, but neither Joseph nor I complained


    15. The deficiencies charged upon this prolonged term amounted to £5,160,459: 14: 9½


    16. In 1707, those duties were still further prolonged, as a fund for new loans


    17. In the heat of battle it could not be called murder, but what if there was a way to avoid killing these men? Would it not be more humane to try to preserve these warriors who had served the people and the Lord? Severing their abilities was an assured death sentence regardless of whether it was immediate or prolonged, as wielders could not live long without the Power


    18. But when Armageddon came, their suffering would be unimaginable, if they didn’t die in the initial blast-wave radiation, the darkening fallout ensured a prolonged death


    19. Prolonged use may reduce iron absorption in the intestines and may also affect other mineral balances in the body


    20. "Minna," protests Peggy, "you mustn't eat another bit of candy!" and Minna opens her mouth in a howl, prolonged, but without tears and

    21. Several houses were demolished; but with such precedents as Sebastopol, Strasburg, and Paris, it was easy to realise that Shafter's threat to knock Santiago to pieces with his puny field-guns was futile; even aided by a powerful navy, it might take a prolonged action to force surrender


    22. Then three prolonged cheers of triumph ran down the lines, followed by a crashing rifle salute, mingled with a thunderous shout from the Cubans, “Viva los Americanos!”


    23. should be apparent by now after prolonged experience with failed (economic) policies


    24. This was done primarily after prolonged droughts, floods or plagues


    25. Other hardliners on Communism, including Kennedy and Reagan, prolonged the Cold War, notably argued by George Kennan, the analyst and architect of US Containment policy


    26. prolonged period of time


    27. The photos showed beatings, death threats, threats with guard dogs, sexual humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, smearing prisoners with feces and urine, simulated drowning, and disorientation using loud sounds


    28. Finally, he released the smoke in a prolonged billowing stream


    29. congregation and the spirit of sacrifice and mortification of the women who carried upon their shoulders the very heavy statue of Our Lady of Sorrow during the prolonged run through the steepest streets of the town


    30. The prior president, Van Buren, opposed the takeover because he saw correctly that it would lead to a prolonged and divisive war with Mexico

    31. The harm to workers’ health by repeated and prolonged exposure to the dangerous chemicals became a contentious issue


    32. If that is you, why be a partisan party follower? Why makes excuses for wrongs done by those you once voted for? Why devote yourself to any political party, except to hold its feet to the fire and live up to higher principle? Why would any such person of good heart and intentions focus on fluff and ephemera like “leadership qualities” and supposed statesmanship? Why focus on anything but whether people will live or die because of wars threatened or prolonged or avoided or ended, or policies or politics that inflict or relieve human suffering? Why care about anything but these concerns?


    33. Having taken all that into account, and after prolonged and thoughtful deliberation, the idea of barging in Novorski’s office could only be compared to a village of natives in the Amazon waking up one day, and deciding they were the rightful rulers of the entire world, before promptly setting out to conquer everyone else armed with sticks, spears, stones, and the occasional sharp tropical fruit, arguing amongst themselves that the one hiccup in their plan was whether or not their canoes would be able to provide the required logistics support, mainly mangoes and coke leaves


    34. It seemed to Hilderich as if the man had grown literally attached to his set of armor, or that its prolonged use had left indelible stains on his body


    35. The mint remedy was not working and the Baroness slipped quietly into a prolonged sleep


    36. But the higher they went and the more time passed, it became more and more difficult to climb and their pace dropped considerably with their pauses becoming increasingly frequent and more prolonged


    37. Jan was the younger of the two, dark-haired and with a thin face that Colling guessed was the result of either illness or prolonged anxiety, or both


    38. a prolonged fever urging that the medicine was pure


    39. of it are many, but by the man of understanding and knowledge the state of it shall be prolonged


    40. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear

    41. lives were prolonged for a season and time


    42. have multiple orgasms and prolonged sex


    43. There may be the same prolonged sexual


    44. one is that it goes a step further in not only promoting prolonged sex


    45. The gallery visit was a mere company invitation for the Bank’s prolonged benevolence


    46. He had fathered children by another woman during Terri’s prolonged illness, and apparently wanted to get on with his new life


    47. Maybe better, for to Hobsbawm the “climax” of the march “can be prolonged for hours


    48. A prolonged ecstasy will burn


    49. It was really a prolonged stumble to a fall, but for his


    50. 38 And Hedad replied before the judge and said to the man, Did I not tell you the interpretation of your dreame the cord means that your days shall be prolonged like a cord, and the mantle, that you will have a vineyard in which you will plant all kinds of fruit trees










































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    Synonyms for "prolonged"

    elongated extended lengthened prolonged drawn-out lengthy protracted extensive long drawn out attenuated dragging

    "prolonged" definitions

    relatively long in duration; tediously protracted


    drawn out or made longer spatially