Sentence examples for So protracted from inspiring English sources

Jeez, but did I really need so protracted a soak?

But my understanding is that this is what miners always do, even if not so protracted and extreme.

Maybe the Labor Department inquiry into the Penn Specialty case will reveal why this process has been so protracted.

Their time in the studio has been so protracted that even the subjects are out of date.

The fall is so protracted that Alice wonders if and when she will ever reach the bottom.

In Arizona and Ohio, the deaths of the inmates were so protracted and painful that the states began looking for alternative drugs to use instead.

So Blair's concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.

As with so many protracted conflicts, this one is rooted in intangibles.

All the same, I wonder about his labours, so agonisingly protracted.

But the spectacle of clubby, empty-headed good cheer is so lovingly protracted -- this section takes up almost the first 20 minutes -- that we feel as if we're trapped reading a tribute to someone who few people particularly care about.

His recovery was so unexpectedly protracted that he had to postpone previously scheduled performances.