Sentence examples for protracted plot from inspiring English sources
The story is full of protracted plot twists and portentous cliffhangers, many of them not of particular relevance to the mystery at hand; we are told as much about the reading habits of the house-steward, a fan of "Robinson Crusoe," and the fraught romance between the handsome Franklin Blake and the impetuous Rachel Verinder, as we are about the circumstances surrounding the heist.
Decision-making about proposals to redevelop fringe-belt plots has frequently been protracted, reflecting the profitability of redevelopment, the large size of many of the plots, the large number of interested parties, and the scope for different interpretations of planning policies.
Seen in what was claimed to be its first professional New York production, mounted by the Bronx Opera Company in the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College on Saturday night, the work readily showed its intrinsic shortcomings: a plot too whimsical for modern tastes, a wayward libretto, a girth too protracted for the frivolity of its material.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
Another protracted silence.
The result was protracted economic weakness.
Long, protracted courtships are not uncommon".
Each issue has generated protracted debate.
