Sentence examples for protracted visit from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, may we suggest suspending the use of telephonic communications, and perhaps a protracted visit to the western reaches of your native land, i.e. the Outback?

My stay often coincided with a protracted visit from one of her many cousins, involving much lunchtime drinking and impenetrable, fascinating gossip on which I could guilelessly listen in from behind the sofa.

Escaping the worst horrors of the Commune of Paris, Degas left in 1872 for a protracted visit to his relatives in New Orleans, where he pursued his experiments in family portraiture in spectacular works such as the Cotton Office at New Orleans (1873).

One chapter, "Excursions Abroad," takes in both an eccentrically brief visit to Sweden and an unfeasibly protracted engagement to a young woman: both episodes, implicitly, are "abroad".

Arranging the exhibition involved four visits to Pyongyang starting in 2003 and protracted negotiations, he said.

In Haiti, assessment tools and databases were included from the time of the 2010 earthquake to the time of the field visits; in Sudan, only one tool was included (and in use), and the field visit took place nearly a decade into a protracted emergency.

She emphasized that the level of commitment required for seeking immunisation services was comparable to visiting a good hair dresser, which is a protracted event for an urban Ugandan woman.

But Mr. Berends's best and most unusual material comes in a brief visit to a nearby village where a woman goes into a dangerous and protracted labor.

Ms. Ractliffe, who lives in Johannesburg, took the photographs in 2009 and 2010 in Angola on visits to now-deserted places that were important to that country's protracted civil war and to the intertwined struggle of neighboring Namibia to gain independence from South Africa's apartheid rule.

A protracted silence.

They are also protracted.