Sentence examples for protracted affair from inspiring English sources

The prosecution in Italy was a protracted affair.

Electing a chairman of the parliament proved a protracted affair.

Still, American officials said they did not expect a protracted affair.

But in truth the recovery could be a slow, protracted affair.

Adolescence is boring, smelly and above all a protracted affair, something like a long-haul flight.

Egypt's revolution is turning out to be an extremely protracted affair.

These can often be tedious, protracted affairs.

Presidential campaigns are protracted affairs that require candidates to deftly manage the seesaws of hopes and fears, enthusiasm and foreboding, aggression and equanimity, momentum and wanderings.

Games are slow, protracted affairs, but hugely satisfying when your empire grows as a result of your own attention to detail and forethought.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] American civility warSIR – America's protracted love affair with anti-intellectualism has found its latest expression during the Republican presidential nomination contest ("Mitt Romney marches on", January 14th).

The whole affair was protracted and the atmosphere vicious.