protracting

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It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Something cognate to this in the comparison of the power and the greatness of a motive will explain the persistent fatuity of the Boer in protracting his contest with Great Britain.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

They accused him of protracting the war for his own personal objects, either of ambition or avarice; and the soldiery, whose appetite for plunder had been often checked by Lucullus, readily joined in the outcry.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

Still he sat smoking and protracting his coffee, and haughtily playing that he was not starving for companionship.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

I know there has been no impolicy in protracting his absence thus far.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte