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Example sentences for "prolongation"

Lexicographically close words:
prolixity; prolocutor; prologue; prologues; prolong; prolongations; prolonge; prolonged; prolonging; prolongs
  1. She wanted to go up to Lydie and to offer her vapid expressions of goodwill, but Gaston, heartily tired of the prolongation of this scene, dragged her somewhat roughly away.

  2. Another word such as you said just now, too long a prolongation of this charming tete-a-tete, and Mlle.

  3. Why do we deny the infinity of certain dimensions, notwithstanding their infinite prolongation in one sense?

  4. By the infinite prolongation of a line in two opposite directions we seem to obtain an absolutely infinite line; for we cannot conceive a lineal value greater than that of a right line infinitely prolonged in opposite directions.

  5. Standing at our port gangway, I lowered the pump-rod twenty-four feet to a shelf projecting from the mass: beneath this, a prolongation or tongue stretched to a depth which I could not determine.

  6. This was the party which, it is asserted, in fact desired the prolongation of the war until the destroyed nationality of Mexico took refuge from domestic intrigues, misgovernment and anarchy, in annexation to the United States.

  7. The westward prolongation of the great south-western promontory of England, occupied by the county of Cornwall, continues as a rugged ridge broken by a succession of depressions, and exceeds a height of 800 ft.

  8. The war closed victoriously at the moment when its prolongation seemed unendurable.

  9. This is true also of some of the lectures in which reiteration and prolongation in time of delivery aids very much in forcibly impressing the candidate and other observers with the importance and sacredness of the ceremony.

  10. Each of the lines is repeated as often as the singer may desire, the prolongation of the song being governed by his inspired condition.

  11. Flesh and blood shrank from perpetual strife, he thought, and after four contested elections in fourteen years at Oxford, he asked himself whether he should not escape the prolongation of the series.

  12. The victory of either side could only bring misery; and the prolongation of the war was a prospect equally unhappy.

  13. Via Annia, a by-road of the Via Cassia; this road approached it from the south passing through Nepet, while its prolongation to the north certainly bore the name Via Amerina.

  14. We were not a little surprised to learn that the land which we had considered as a prolongation of the coast of Lancerota, was the small island of Graciosa, and that for several leagues there was not an inhabited place.

  15. It includes climates which may be termed temperate rather than hot; and it is looked upon in the country, notwithstanding the distance of more than a hundred leagues, as a prolongation of the metalliferous soil of Pamplona.

  16. One of the most interesting features of the case was the rapid cooling of the body after the accident and prolongation of the coolness with slight variations until death ensued.

  17. In this state they are lowered into a cool, quiet tomb, which still further favors the prolongation of the artificially induced vital lethargy; in this condition they rest for from six to eight weeks.

  18. Jaffe describes an instance of the prolongation of pregnancy for three hundred and sixty-five days, in which the developments and measurements corresponded to the length of protraction.

  19. The woman from prolongation of labor was in a complete state of prostration, which caused uterine inertia.

  20. Strong records an unusual obstetric case in which there was prolongation of the pregnancy, with a large child, and entire absence of liquor amnii.

  21. The prolongation of the coccyx sometimes takes the shape of a caudal extremity in man.

  22. These statistics seem to have been made with the idea of illustrating the marvelous rather than to give the usual prolongation of these functions.

  23. Percy thought the excrescence a prolongation of the coccyx, and said that similar instances were seen in savage men of Borneo.

  24. The ground-plan of Winchester Cathedral is in the form of a plain Latin cross, hardly broken in its outline save by the Perpendicular prolongation of the Lady Chapel at the east end.

  25. Aeschna) in which the eyes of the imago are absolutely contiguous, the most that can be seen in the larva is a prolongation towards each other, and there are no ocelli.

  26. And amongst them we have a water which we call Water of Paradise, being, by that we do to it made very sovereign for health, and prolongation of life.

  27. All the gates of Paris were isolated from their approaches by the prolongation of the moat, drawbridges being now utilised.

  28. These considerations also remove the objection arising from the impossibility of ocularly following the lines in their prolongation to infinity.

  29. It follows that there is a connexion through causation between the degree of muscular irritability after death, and the tardiness and prolongation of the cadaveric rigidity.

  30. It is situated on the prolongation of a line joining Regulus to Spica, and forms with Vega of the Lyre, and Arcturus of the Herdsman, a great isosceles triangle, of which this latter star is the apex.

  31. It should be added that its special immobility, in the prolongation of the Earth's axis, is merely an effect caused by the diurnal movements of our planet.

  32. Capricorn lies to the south of Altaïr, on the prolongation of a line from the Lyre to the Eagle.

  33. Remodeling and mitigation of the military penal code; abolition of disciplinary corps, and prohibition of the prolongation of military service by way of penalty.

  34. That the prolongation of the war, however it might enrich the English soldiers, was ruinous to the king himself, who bore all the charges of the armament, without reaping any solid or durable advantage from it.

  35. Thus two propositions are presupposed: First, that such a rotation is possible, and next that it may be continued until the two straights come into the prolongation one of the other.

  36. But the base treason of Imilkon, though he insured a safe retreat home by betraying the larger portion of his army, earned for him only a short prolongation of life amidst the extreme of ignominy and remorse.

  37. To have put down such formidable enemies, almost indispensable as leaders to any party which sought to rise against him, was the strongest of all negative securities for the prolongation of his reign.

  38. Then the friction on the neck of the shaft is made one half less by being divided between the two bearings, and the short prolongation of the shaft beyond the journal is convenient for the attachment of the eccentrics to work the valves.

  39. The valve spindle was hollow, and a prolongation of the screw passed up through it, and was armed on the top with a small wheel, by means of which the plates might be adjusted while the engine was at work.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prolongation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    continuation; continuity; descent; endurance; extension; following; lengthening; line; lineage; lingering; maintenance; order; perpetuation; perseverance; persistence; posteriority; procession; procrastination; production; progress; progression; projection; prolongation; protraction; pursuance; repetition; rotation; run; series; strain; stretch; stretching; succession; sustenance; tension; way; wing