Protracted used in a sentence

Protracted in a sentence as an adjective

Without the threat of protracted legal costs the trolls have no teeth.

It would have been slow, protracted and very painful.

"Searching for work at a startup has been a protracted, fruitless process.

You write in such a protracted, drawn-out fashion that it is hard to understand what you are saying.

Though my early adulthood has been a protracted education in them, I do not admit mine.

Most of them couldn't afford the fees to start the legal process, let alone pay for a protracted fight on obscure areas of copyright.

Lastly, on a more personal note -- it is clear that anyone with the "slippery *****" argument has never lost a loved one to a protracted decline into the inevitable dirt sleep.

The lack of bargaining power in academia exists in part because of the protracted period required to demonstrate productivity.

That makes litigation protracted and expensive because you end up getting into the weeds of technical issues and whether this kind of thing is like this other kind of thhing that the court system isn't really competent to deal with.

Rather than have a protracted battle, the Hudson team did actually begin talking to Oracle about taking the project to a foundation, such as Eclipse or Apache, to ensure legitimacy of process from both sides.

" - OBL, 2004So yes, it's very fair to suggest that his goal was to get Afganistan and Iraq invaded given that his formative years were spent, in his mind, bringing down the Soviet Union by provoking them into a protracted and costly battle in Afganistan.

No -- if anything, I bet there is a protracted, multi-decade fight among a lot of very persistent corporate attorneys and executives that has lead to this "win."In any case, I really hope people in our industry can stop the useless arguments of "end all patents!

Like many others here, the couple times I've been along from start to exit, despite all the contracts and promises and hard work at low pay with no overtime, key contributions, etc, so far, never a dollar, and in one case, a protracted legal battle as they tried to steal my preexisting IP which I had a signed agreement from them acknowledging belonging to me, signed before I started work.

So, what used to be regarded as a dispute over garbage at the local dump becomes a massive environmental enforcement action by which dozens of parties face multi-million dollar liabilities; what used to be a distribution chain in which only the end-point seller typically bore liability to the consumer becomes massive product liability suits going back to the manufacturers and imposing strict liability on them in ways that can ruin a multi-billion business; what used to be the $.25 that a cab driver overcharged you because of some shifty trade practice becomes a major class action in which all the vendors in the area are swept in to face a protracted legal fight and potentially substantial damage exposure; etc., etc., etc.