Sentence examples for protracted reign from inspiring English sources

Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier HarperCollins, £12.99 In her follow-up to Girl With a Pearl Earring, Chevalier invokes the two splendid Victorian obsessions of sex and death, except that now the Queen's protracted reign is finally over, and social and sexual mores are slowly beginning to change.

A protracted silence.

They are also protracted.

Conflicts are becoming more protracted.

What is protracted war?

Another protracted silence.

The result was protracted economic weakness.

Long, protracted courtships are not uncommon".

Each issue has generated protracted debate.

But legal processes can be protracted.

They have been protracted and hugely complex.