protraction

How To Use protraction In A Sentence

• Of course, the pain associated with birthing was considered entirely natural, while the protraction of pain and suffering associated with foot-binding was altogether an intentional act of the human will.
• Imagine them denuded of even the attenuated r and r release that they are allowed there; imagine their seemingly infinite protraction.
• By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 7
• Another role of the scapula involves retraction and protraction along the thoracic wall.
• Muscles necessary for the rapid dorsoventral expansion of the head are composed primarily of fast-twitch fibers while those involved in more tonic contractions such as hyoid protraction have more slow-twitch muscle fibers.
• That today the United States accepts these limitations at risk to its interest means that its enemies benefit from advantages they might not otherwise enjoy, including the deliberate protraction of conflict as well as the expansion of the scope of war well beyond its immediate operational zones to regions that seem to have no direct involvement in the war. Between War and Peace
• Accidental obscurity or dawdling is one thing, sure, but deliberate protraction and orchestrated ambiguity can be choices, no less elegant when carried off with expertise. Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!
• Those require a different kind of change and we have an appetite for neither its protraction nor its privations. Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
• Routine massage method was applied in control group, manual replacement with the lumbar part in a anteflexed and dorsal protraction condition was applied in treatment group.
• I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 24