Here one almost inevitably pauses after dreams (or prolongs the word beyond its natural length), though there is no logical reason for doing so.
The past but prolongs itself to the present; and all enterprise, all yearning, are but to recover the ground we have lost.
The Past but eternally prolongs itself to the Present.
A love founded on esteem which will last with life itself, on virtues which will not fade with fading beauty, on fitness of character which gives a charm to intercourse, and prolongs to old age the delights of early love.
It exhausts life rather than prolongs it; should it even prolong life it would only be to the prejudice of the race, since it makes us set its precautions before society and our fears before our duties.
If common observation shows us that medicine neither increases health nor prolongs life, it follows that this useless art is worse than useless, since it wastes time, men, and things on what is pure loss.
The bodily effect of our sufferings is less than one would suppose; it is memory that prolongs the pain, imagination which projects it into the future, and makes us really to be pitied.
To live only in the present, to respond to a stimulus by the immediate reaction which prolongs it, is the mark of the lower animals; the man who proceeds in this way is a man of impulse.
Thus far the Lord has led me on; Thus far his power prolongs my days; And every evening shall make known, Some fresh memorial of his grace.
He pardons all thy sins, Prolongs thy feeble breath: He healeth thine infirmities, And ransoms thee from death.
Now to thy heavenly Father's praise, My heart, thy tribute bring; That goodness whichprolongs my days, With grateful pleasure sing.
While life prolongs its precious light, Mercy is found, and peace is given; But soon, ah!
God of my life, to thee My cheerful soul I raise, Thy goodness bade me be, And stillprolongs my days: I see my natal hour return, And bless the day that I was born.
My mother stays: 95 This physic but prolongsthy sickly days.
It prolongs health, dissipates superfluous matters, revives the spirits, and preserves youth.
This eau de vin is called by some eau de vie, and justly so, since it prolongs life.
Wilfrid had yet to learn that every sun which rises for us in untroubled sky is a portent of inevitable gloom, that nature only prolongs our holiday to make the journey-work of misery the harder to bear.
Is there no nether Circle, where dread anticipation eternally prolongs itself, eternally varied with hope in vain for ever?
The superior border presents in its median part a projection, the pyramidal eminence, which prolongs at this level the anterior surface of the bone.
It arises from this fossa; and, further, from the external surface of the cartilage which prolongs the scapula upwards in solipeds and ruminants.
She thinks a look may recompense my care, And so with looks prolongs my long-looked ease; As short that bliss, so is the comfort rare; Yet must that bliss my hungry thoughts appease.
XXV False hope prolongs my ever certain grief, Traitor to me, and faithful to my love.
The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
This must be done early; even this may not cure but it, at least, prolongs life and makes the patient more comfortable while life does last.
It is incurable, but treatment sometimes arrests the progress and at least lessens the suffering and prolongs life as long as it is worth living to them.
The tourist leaves Dunkirk by Rue de Paris and Rue des 4-Ecluses, which prolongs it, to follow the itinerary of the first day.
It gives another string to the bow, and prolongs the season of flowering.
This diminishes the risk of failure and prolongs the flowering season.
The simultaneous use of both pedals is a modern virtuoso effect and a very charming one, for the damper pedal prolongs the gentle tones produced by the use of the soft pedal.
The damper pedal, or loud pedal, checks the action of all the dampers and prolongs the tones even after the fingers have released the keys.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
If Fate prolongs his earth-days, His joys grow fewer still; And after five more birthdays He totters down the hill.
Love of man is love of God, and love of God prolongs life.
Unfortunately, for two years opinion has wandered from the proper path, and by taking the wrong side of the question, prolongs instead of stopping resistance.
This delusion has and still maintains the resistance of the South, itprolongs the war, and with it our sufferings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prolongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
