drawn-out

How To Use drawn-out In A Sentence

• De Soto and his captains are probably concluding that this is going to be a long and drawn-out affair. Fire The Sky
• About half the time, the songs are laid-back - mellow even - and meander casually along with long, rich, drawn-out horn solos and harmonies.
• Many stewards were taken aback at the prospect of such a drawn-out dispute and the union appears less bombastic this time around. Times, Sunday Times
• After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
• Many stewards were taken aback at the prospect of such a drawn-out dispute and the union appears less bombastic this time around. Times, Sunday Times
• And by this point, the process became so slow and drawn-out that they were ineffective.
• They had a match point in the semi-final against the Cantrells, but Burdett served a double fault on the sudden-death second deuce in which this point is decisive under the rules of the competition designed to prevent drawn-out matches.
• Gingrich's poll numbers have lagging and the drawn-out contest he previously advocated for increasingly looks like it could be his undoing. Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri results – live
• But he has been frustrated by the drawn-out nature of local government politics, which has stopped him achieving other targets.
• The basic phonetic unit of pirate speech is the single long-drawn-out letter: R, I, A, etc.