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drag out

VERB
  1. proceed for an extended period of time
    The speech dragged on for two hours
  2. last unnecessarily long

How To Use drag out In A Sentence

  • The company was willing to drag out the proceedings for years.
  • It deliberately puts in a lot of fiddling little details that drag out the story.
  • At least I work from home so I won't be totally screwed if I can't get a rental car right away, but I definitely don't want this thing to drag out.
  • Let's not drag out this discussion, we've got to reach a decision.
  • It was a gay-friendly environment where he could be himself, where he could show off his latest drag outfits, where he could joke.
  • I return my eyes to the male onstage auditioning for one of the female parts; it's scary how good his drag outfit looks on him.
  • The 12 of February we saw an Iland of Africa side called Galata,327 where they vse to drag out of the Sea much Corall, and we saw likewise Sardinia, which is an Iland subiect to Spaine. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • His new album is not musically operatic - his songs are tediously boring, like a drag out of hell.
  • And it is because of the light which the amoeba thus incidentally casts upon the nature of the specialised senses in higher animals that I have ventured once more to drag out of the private life of his native pond that already too notorious and obtrusive rhizopod. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
  • He felt like he was a cultish gonzo reporter so he decided to drag out his old underwood from under the bed and bash out the following report on the state of this house now the elections were under way.
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