protraction

Example Sentences

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They can also be used to prevent “the expansion and protraction of a war,” the law says, according to the state media report.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Special movements include inversion, eversion, protraction, retraction, elevation, depression, dorsiflexion, plantar flexion, supination, pronation, and opposition.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The sculpture had become, after all these years, about the protraction of the human foot and the celestial head.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K.’s lawyer gives him the option of filing for a Verschleppung, or  protraction.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2014

The lengthened bill should produce no difficulties in protraction of the upper mandible and depression of the lower for the reason that in the dove there is no known resistance offered to these movements.

From Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves by Merz, Robert L.