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View definitions for prolong

prolong

verb as in extend, draw out

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Example Sentences

We smile weakly, not wanting to let them down or prolong the conversation.

When he finally became president, Nixon walked away from that war to prolong a futile one half a world away.

Drugs are becoming more powerful with prescription painkillers used to enhance effect and prolong a deleterious pleasure.

What the U.S. is doing now can only prolong Syrian and regional agonies.

In Congress, Radel has been a strong conservative and Tea Party favorite who voted to prolong the government shutdown in October.

I shall show how it is possible thus to prolong life to the term set by God.

However, a sojourn in a milder climate might prolong his life for a few months; so he advised Algeria.

It is ill-bred, and looks as if you were unaccustomed to such pleasures, and so desirous to prolong each one.

But Colt tried to prolong the contest by bringing up a voter an hour.

The others would bring enough for a winter grubstake, and would prolong their freedom and their independence just that much.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prolong, such as: continue, delay, drag out, lengthen, perpetuate, and protract.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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