A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956.

More and more divorcing couples are undertaking protracted and expensive legal proceedings for custody rights over the family pets.

Their interview was protracted beyond that at which they usually parted.

Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.

Saturn's daughter, fearing it, and remembering the protracted war which she had first waged at Troy on behalf of her beloved Argives -- the causes of her anger and her fierce grievances had still not died down in her soul.