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long-drawn-out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-drawn-out
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a long-drawn-out court battle
▪ Netscape faces a long-drawn-out battle with software giant Microsoft.
▪ The long-drawn-out campaigns that precede every election in the US have already begun.
▪ This war is too one-sided to be very long-drawn-out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoiding long-drawn-out negotiations and yet ensuring that everyone is in the know is part of the task of governors.
▪ It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away, raising its hands to its mouth.
▪ Mae was refused a visa and what looked like a short hiccup developed into a long-drawn-out campaign.
▪ The battle proved to be one of the most long-drawn-out takeovers ever, involving many twists and changes of fortune.
▪ The moment seemed to go on for ever, impossibly long-drawn-out.
▪ This long-drawn-out effort finally succeeded in 1920, and Ida Smedley was the first woman to be formally accepted into the Society.
▪ Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
long-drawn-out

long-drawn-out \long-drawn-out\ adj. 1. relatively long in duration; as, a long-drawn-out visit from my mother-in-law.

Syn: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted.

Wiktionary
long-drawn-out

a. protracted, extending for a great period of time.

Usage examples of "long-drawn-out".

For Marcel Proust, whose fifteen-volume A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is a long-drawn-out struggle to recall and thus to transcend a painful past, the trigger which evokes the entire history is the taste of a madeleine cake.

First there was a rending crack, then a long-drawn-out series of crystalline crashes like a million glasshouses being demolished.

But even without the prize-money, or with much less of it, they would still have loved these cruises, the long-drawn-out chase with every possible turn of seamanship on either side, and then the capture - piracy with a clear conscience: and now, the word having spread from the former Sophies to all the present Worcesters with its usual electric speed, the hands hauled the bowlines and sharped the yards with far more than common energy.

But even without the prize-money, or with much less of it, they would still have loved these cruises, the long-drawn-out chase with every possible turn of seamanship on either side, and then the capture - piracy with a clear conscience: and now, the word having spread from the former Sophies to all the present Worcesters with its usual electric speed, the hands hauled the bowlines and sharped the yards with far more than common energy.

The Count of Messina, after a protracted interdiction of his trade by sea and several long-drawn-out and very destructive cannonadings of his harbor defenses by the allied fleets, had raised his vassals and thrown out the Spanish-Moorish officials and garrison, then declared Messina open to the forces of Pope Sicola and His Holiness's supporters.

The necessity for all questions and replies to be translated made the entire court process long-drawn-out and tedious, so it was only on the third day that Craig was called to the witness stand.

Litigation was a long-drawn-out affair and more often than not decided in favor of the claim jumper.

If no deus ex machina appears at this interesting juncture, the whole turns into a sad, sad, long-drawn-out, ultimately squalid tragedy.

But worse than that for our purposes was his case-book showing long-drawn-out histories of general bilious indisposition, melancholy, taedium vitae sometimes reaching mere despair, extreme irascibility: all this with no known agent, though autopsy showed an enlarged quadrate lobe studded with yellow nodules the size of a pea.

He felt for him now: but, he reflected, Stephen's was at least an honourable secrecy, a long-drawn-out permissible ruse de guerre that could not damage him in his own opinion.