“It would require a sudden transformation of forelimbs from a retractive, terrestrial, weight-bearing stroke to a depressive, protractive, aerial, thrust-generating stroke.”

“Similarly, the arms that connect the palatal TADs to the acrylic pads of the hybrid MARPE may have flexed under the protractive effect of the Class III elastics, allowing for proclination of the maxillary incisors.”

“The 32-year-old Scot ended protractive talks with the League Two club by signing a two-year contract.”

“Balbiani describes the buccal cavity as containing a protractile stylet.”

“Ponyfish have a very protractile mouth, a phenomenon which can be demonstrated by squeezing the head, when the mouth will shoot forward.”

“Trap termites using their long protractile tongues, which are covered with a thick, sticky saliva.”

“During a protracted meeting last night, the Undergraduate Council approved a much smaller budget for the upcoming year.”

“Neither would they be under the necessity of having recourse to a protracted struggle in a movement that requires no struggle at all.”

“On one occasion, Walker delivered a protracted speech against a bill whose passage by the United States House of Representatives was a foregone conclusion.”

“The Turbine Hall commission, however, required something less protractedly pensive.”

“This matching has the ability of producing dry ice preserving protractedly.”

“Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly?”