Prolong
To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.
To put off to a distant time; to postpone.
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Prolong Quotations
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Tom Robbins
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
Suzanne Fields
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
Jim Ramstad
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
George Michael
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon
I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
Valentina Tereshkova
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian Fleming
Prolong Translations
prolong in French is prolongeons, prolongent, prolongez
prolong in Latin is extraho
prolong in Spanish is prolongar
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