What agony was this! And the man seemed resolved to protract it.
Let's not protract the debate any further.
There is good news, then, for those who enjoy parliamentary pyrotechnics: Mr Willetts's plan seems destined to protract the debate over university funding rather than resolve it.
I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
The distributed test system enables to survey and protract the body pressure distribution curve of different seat cushion effectively.