Sentence examples for dragged on a from inspiring English sources

"Free tickets for everyone who's still at the game," one fan bellowed as the rout dragged on, a reasonable request that would have cost the Mets about 5,000 tickets.

The musical numbers dragged on a bit, but Groucho's zingers always seemed funnier when everyone else was asleep.

As the angry demonstrations dragged on, a man walked into the store, Freddy's clothing, began shooting and set a fire that killed seven workers and himself.

As the show dragged on a half-hour too long, the singers, who also included Shelly Burch, Michelle Liu Coughlin and Richard Gray, were shuffled and reshuffled into statuesque configurations like pawns in a high-school pageant.

But in 2003, as negotiations to end that conflict dragged on, a new rebel group rose up in Darfur to demand a greater share of wealth and power for the long-neglected western region.

A12 Contrast in Custody Cases While the custody case involving Elian Gonzalez has dragged on, a similar Miami case, involving a 2-year-old Jordanian boy, Khalil Shanti, whose mother brought him to the United States without his father's consent, has been resolved quietly and quickly, with a judge ordering Khalil returned to Jordan within 10 days.

To drag on a pretend cigarette.

I thought it might drag on a while because Chanderpaul's rearguard actions.

Fearful that the housing slump could drag on a few more years?

Worse, the process might drag on for a decade.

Sessions could drag on for more than a year.