prolong

Example Sentences

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However, weather conditions can shorten the process to four days or prolong it for as long as a month, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a great outcome for Paramount, which only had to raise its hostile tender offer by $1 a share to avoid a prolonged bidding war.

From Barron's

Its tendency to suffer prolonged selloffs creates something called sequence of return risk.

From The Wall Street Journal

Because many offspring hatched together and reproduction occurred more frequently than in mammals, this strategy increased the odds that at least some would survive, without requiring prolonged parental investment.

From Science Daily

Wrapped in her prolonged mourning for Elisha, she was unaware of how much the Civil War had changed the country.

From Literature