11 example sentences using prolong.
Prolong used in a sentence
Prolong in a sentence as a verb
For example, by how much does it prolong life?
"Why do you want to prolong your\n mother's agonies after all the suffering she has been through?
Slow configuration tools are easy to write but prolong outages.
If you can't, don't prolong the process and drag your personal relationships into it.
Obviously, what we did until now with medical advances is prolong old age and delay the inevitable.
At the moment, a large and increasing percentage of total medical expenditure goes on prolonging the time over which people are tortured to death.
The question that the trial was asking can be framed as "Does taking abiraterone prolong the period of time that a patient can be symptom free and their cancer is under control?
At first, I was confused by this statement, given the data..> "...modern medicine may be doing more to complicate the end of life than to prolong or improve it" 1900 65 -> +12 85 -> +4 2007 65 -> +19 85 -> +6 The engineer in me said, but we've improved!
", and the ones you do get probably indicate a need for immediate psychological help.> Some people faced with certain death will go to very extreme lengths to prolong their lives by the tiniest amount.
The longer we can prolong life, the greater leverage we can extract from experience, imagine being immersed in a subject for hundreds of years, what could you not do in a minute what would take someone with even decades of experience, years?
Further, most of the purported benefit standing desks is to prolong lifespan, and there's even stronger evidence that low-BMI people live longer, so the suggestion that I should gain weight and sacrifice a clinically validated approach to living longer in favor of something as novel as a standing desk is just absurd.
Prolong definitions
lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"
See also: sustain