PROLONGED in a Sentence

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1. They prolonged their visit by a few days.
2. After a prolonged time she was back, alone.
3. An irritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar.
4. I was trying to think of some way to prolong the conversation.
5. Thoughts of Melanie's prolonged suffering spurred Scarlett to action.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROLONGED
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prolonged
 a.  lengthy in duration; extended; protracted
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  After a prolonged time she was back, alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  Thoughts of Melanie's prolonged suffering spurred Scarlett to action.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  The silence was so prolonged she wondered if Grandma could have failed to comprehend her desperate plight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  Trenor, a little heated by his unusual flow of words, and perhaps by prolonged propinquity with the decanters, was bending over the latter to decipher their silver labels.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  It left him, collapsed and breathing heavily, to an apathy so deep and prolonged that Lily almost feared the passers-by would think it the result of a seizure, and stop to offer their aid.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  She opened her cheque-book, and plunged into such anxious calculations as had prolonged her vigil at Bellomont on the night when she had decided to marry Percy Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  An irritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
11  But all these seemed only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged abode.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
12  It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
13  Preserving-time was a prolonged festival, and house-cleaning was like a revolution.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
14  Had Hawkeye been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the entertainment a little in pique.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  In the midst of these prolonged and savage yells, a chief proclaimed, in a high voice, that the captive was condemned to endure the dreadful trial of torture by fire.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
Example Sentence:
1  This village needs a deep ditch or channel to run water after a prolonged downpour.
2  If the strangulation is prolonged, which is something that can happen very quickly, death or serious injury can result.
3  They prolonged their visit by a few days.
4  We were having such a good time that we decided to prolong our stay by another week.
5  Two things doth prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
6  I was trying to think of some way to prolong the conversation.
7  In their determination to discover ways to prolong human life, doctors fail to take into account that longer lives are not always happier ones.