How to Use prolonged in a Sentence

prolonged

adjective

• The Greenland ice sheet is already on a prolonged path of decline.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• The team dropped its previous name in 2020 in the face of prolonged criticism.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• The 310-pound Iron Throne was the top lot of the event and was snapped up after what the auction house described as a prolonged, six-minute bidding war.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2024
• But in April, the singer was forced to postpone the Vegas dates due to a prolonged period of sickness.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2024
• Typhoid fever has many symptoms, such as a prolonged high fever, headache and malaise, and Mallon had none of them.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• But a prolonged strike could have unforeseen effects just the same.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• That prolonged exposure can damage the cart and its wheels.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• Severe storms and prolonged droughts will batter supply chains and disrupt the flow of trade.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
• But with newspapers in the midst of a prolonged hiring slump, the recruitment stalled.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Some leggings tend to feel itchy when worn for prolonged hours, or pill after a few washes.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• According to experts, the current heat wave is one of the most prolonged and intense ones the state has ever seen.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
• As what had been expected to be just a short downpour turned into a prolonged storm, Schultz and others spent the night on the bus.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Keep at least 2-3 inches of the stalk attached, making your cut just above a leaf, for prolonged freshness.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• The prolonged walk-up music, the re-fastening of batting gloves, the long walks around the mound, the holding the ball for-ev-er between pitches.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
• But now, after a prolonged drought, the lake’s level has plummeted, and Kallio’s remains have emerged like a ghost from the past.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• In fact, at the rate that the prolonged strikes are going, network television will likely never be the same, and fall TV could well be a thing of the past.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile a prolonged heat wave is sweeping through inland areas of the state.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• For men with high arches at the foot or those who spend prolonged periods on their feet, arch support is a must, not just a plus.
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• Shiv, Kendall, and Roman laugh and bump fists, but through prolonged, strained glances, their doubt personified in the high-note strings playing over the scene.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
• In addition to its threat to human health, intense and prolonged heat have a wider impact on the planet.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• The result has been the most prolonged slump of his professional career.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• When her father’s diet advances to soft liquids, a bowl of cream-of-mushroom soup sets off a prolonged episode.
  — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
• Even at its current size, the lake will need a year or longer to dissipate, meaning prolonged hardship.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
• That feeling that fills the head and overflows as tears, which fell at the prolonged horn blast signaling the Panthers’ 2-1 survival and triumph.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• The cast of Yellowstone was hardly idle during the show’s prolonged hiatus.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• The riparian brush rabbits live near the edges of rivers — not ideal for the prolonged flooding in recent months.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Farmers across Iowa were jittery about their yields because of a prolonged summer drought.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• When a patient has an infection for a prolonged period of time, the bacteria has time to change and adapt.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• The troubled plane maker’s latest challenge is the prolonged machinist union strike, which has halted production of its 737 MAX for the past month.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
• Unlike other illnesses that can lead to seizures because of high or prolonged fevers, rotavirus seizures are not necessarily more common in kids with fevers.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024