"prolonged" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She worked her fingers into the neck; extricating the manuscript was a deliriously prolonged ordeal.
- This becomes a prolonged, painful, emotionally taxing, undignified and enormously expensive ordeal for patients and families, with no change in the long-term outcome.
- Much time has been spent during this prolonged ordeal comparing the situation to Watergate, only for most to conclude that the two have little in common.
- The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arrested Ship in July 1953 and, after a prolonged ordeal, threw him out of the US at the Detroit/Windsor border crossing.
- Recovered from her prolonged ordeal, Dorothy nodded.
- Lakshmi leaves the temple, and avenges the insult by cursing her husband and elder brother-in-law to go through a prolonged ordeal without food, water or shelter.
- It marked an almost instantaneous end to the prolonged ordeal that began in the early morning hours of March 30, shortly after Mr. Smith met the woman at a Palm Beach night club called Au Bar.
- Overall, though, captivity in Vietnam was a prolonged ordeal which, even as conditions eased after 1970, meant years of misery for American POWs.
- He sensed that they could not stand a prolonged ordeal.
- But today he announced a plan to address the broader legislative issues that make New York's annual budget process a prolonged ordeal, and proposed a pair of government reform bills to encourage legislative action.
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