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

For his, indeed, was true Youth's temperament,—summary with sadness, swift to joyfulness, and long protracting, and detaining with that joyfulness, when once it came fully nigh to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Constantine XIII. and his second in command, the Genoese Giustiniani, did all that brave and skilful men might, in protracting the siege.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

It did not occur to his mind that Dieppe had anything to gain—or even a bare chance of gaining anything—by protracting the conversation.

From Captain Dieppe by Hope, Anthony

Ellenborough, when at the bar, after protracting his argument to the hour of adjournment, said that he would conclude when it should suit His Lordship's pleasure to hear him.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)