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
• Plants and their parts are useful crime evidence because plant cell walls, spores, and pollens are distinctive enough to be recognizable and are composed of strong compounds that are resistant to destruction over prolonged periods of time.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• Despite the trees' resilience and speedy recovery, researchers found a decline in young aspens reaching maturity due to prolonged drought and unmanaged animals grazing.
  — John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024