Protract used in a sentence

Protract in a sentence as a verb

It can protract death, make it more painful, instill false hope.

It protracts the decision making process into months, and that's inefficient and sad.

This protracts the phase where memorization would be appropriate.

Advanced medicine only protracts that a little bit, but we have no evidence that individuals staying alive much longer is beneficial to the survival of species nor meaningful for the individuals.

I think that comes ftom people who want to examine war from a moral/amoral and aggressiveness PoV who minimize the threat as we saw it from the SU gaining a foothold in East Asia as well as a desire to not protract a war on Japanese soil where the local pop was more or less trained as militias.