prolong

In a sentence

Six example sentences with prolong, each labelled with its topic.

• Down by two, the coach called timeouts and fouled repeatedly to prolong a game already past eleven o'clock.

  Basketball

• The new protocol did not cure the illness but it did prolong the years patients spent living independently at home.

  Medicine

• Opposition senators read the budget aloud line by line, hoping to prolong debate until the session expired at midnight.

  Politics

• Storing herbs upright in a glass of water will prolong their freshness by nearly a week.

  Cooking

• Dimming the screen and disabling background sync can prolong a phone's battery life by several hours.

  Technology

• The pianist used the pedal to prolong each chord until the notes blurred into a single wash of sound.

  Music

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