Sentence examples for is so protracted from inspiring English sources

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

Sometimes her denunciation is so protracted and unmodulated -- as with Yuri Grigorovich, the former longtime Bolshoi director -- that she drowns herself out.

Some older patients may fail to survive or wean from the ventilator because their recovery is so protracted and other complications ensue.

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Their time in the studio has been so protracted that even the subjects are out of date.

We've had weak growth – indeed, not since the 19th century has a recovery been so protracted – and it is based on unsustainable foundations.

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.

Arguments in 1406 were so protracted that the Parliament met for 159 days, becoming the longest Parliament of the medieval period.

And once social workers were employed, the process of removing them from the job was so protracted and time-consuming that they were left in place.

Perhaps the economic crisis that Barack Obama inherited will turn out to be so protracted and severe that it will later seem to be an event equally as controlling of his priorities; let's hope not.

But he said that change could be attributed to the Internet labor shortage, which has been so protracted that recruiters are more actively lobbying workers at traditional companies, where people are less prone to jump at equity-heavy compensation packages.