Sentence examples for protracted stretch from inspiring English sources
The protracted stretch of weak-to-moderate job creation over the last two years has left many of the people who lost jobs during the recession increasingly desperate.
Asylum procedures are known to be protracted, stretching to over ten years in many host countries.
About halfway through Michalek's two-minute penalty, Richards made a direct pass to Derek Stepan, who deflected the puck into the net and ended a protracted shutout stretch by Senators goalie Craig Anderson.
But she acknowledges that in this world of overlapping, protracted crises, humanitarian budgets are stretched.
Mother's Day features far fewer characters and subplots, stretched thin over a punishingly protracted 118 minutes; there's no buffer between you and the movie's ineptitude.
On Page 471 of a 510-page narrative, when the denouement ought to be coming into view, Mr. Carter is writing "and still the endless night stretched before him" about Eddie's protracted sleuthing efforts.
The possibility that the nerve becomes unloaded when the shoulder is protracted is unlikely since it had been found that protraction itself causes some median nerve stretch.
But the document also acknowledged that the force was so stretched at the height of the riots that it was "impractical" to bail people while they conducted "protracted" investigations, suggesting that investigating officers use special rules to fast-track cases to the courts with less evidence than is normally required.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
