What is "drawn-out"

Usage examples of "drawn-out".

But the New Amazonian system was based on personal contact, kinship and friendship systems, alliances and bargains hammered out during drawn-out suppers.

The mood around the table was one of optimism, of anticipating the end of a tough, drawn-out siege and the satisfaction of a job well done, except of course for Fagin, for whom no form of resolution short of a blitzkrieg would have been entirely satisfactory, and Banish, who appeared distracted.

The drive through the traffic of downtown Litz was like a drawn-out suicide bid.

After what seemed to Tess a long, drawn-out conversation punctuated with elaborate gesturing, Bakhtiian returned, leaving Nito to walk back into camp with them.

There was not a soul around, so that it seemed strange to him when all at once, almost at his elbow, he heard a politely familiar, incidentally rather pleasant voice, with that sweetly drawn-out intonation flaunted among us by overcivilized tradesmen or young, curly-headed sales-clerks from the shopping arcade.

Now, out in the desert, Elenya debated with herself as to which was the easier ritual: the abrupt but respected one demanded of the males or the drawn-out, unpublicized female one.

Somewhere a Buinite hit the net Electricity from the nuclear batteries in the nearest post coursed through the creature in a long, drawn-out thunderclap.

She hated the way Charlestonians talkedthe flat, drawn-out vowels, the private language of cousins and ancestors.

The aorist says nothing about the duration of the action, and while the use of an aorist form does not preclude that the action denoted is drawn-out or on-going, it seems that this tense is more typically used to describe duration-less, punctual, habitual, characteristic or altogether timeless actions.

Her auditory nerve had been overwhelmed by a deafening, drawn-out screech that howled from the walls around her, followed by a sudden, harsh clap.

At least the breakfast rolls I had brought up from the mess-staying in the guard mess for any length of time created a profound and drawn-out silence as every single guard seemed to look at me- contained no goat meat.

With her fluid drawn-out lines, the spearlike sprit jutting from the thrusting clipper bow, and her flaring transom, the two-hundred-foot-long Nepenthe looked as if she were made of fine white china floating on a Delft sea.

I should’ve checked but the landlord lives in Lake Havasu, everything’s a drawn-out process.

Empty lounges and corridors were filled with drawn-out creaking sounds, composite furniture was splintering, collapsing onto the floor, each fresh fragment hitting with the force of a hammer blow, leaving a deep indentation.

He had had enough today and his Northwood visit tomorrow could be a drawn-out affair: the sooner he got his head down, the better.