Sentence examples for prolong a from inspiring English sources

"Waiting does not prolong a favourable outcome.

You might be able to prolong a singing note in opera, but you can hardly prolong a dancing leap until the orchestra catches up with you.

Their collaboration has helped prolong a colonial Israeli occupation that now threatens the entire Zionist enterprise.

This kind of transplant can prolong a patient's life, but the cancer almost always returns.

He seeks "to prolong a friendship which summer had almost made an idyll of...

He now says "devo-max" would merely prolong a running sore.

But what about $1m to prolong a terminally ill patient's painful life by a week?

Both offered access to productive adult modes — financial and social — that could prolong a career built on non-adult principles.

Others operate purely on emotion, and he's seen clients hurt themselves financially to prolong a pet's life.

For Mr. Falcone, the agency's shift will prolong a painful chapter in his long Wall Street career.

He did not prolong a defence pact with China, signed by his predecessor Gayoom, which was due for renewal in 2009.