Synonym: drag, drag out. Similar words: agony, wagon, antagonist, drag, drag in, hang on, ago, a good job. Meaning: v. 1. last unnecessarily long 2. proceed for an extended period of time.
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61) What's more, the Earth's rotation should also produce a drag on local spacetime, like a marble spinning in molasses would pull the goop around it.
62) U.S. auto sales account for as much as one-fifth of retail sales. The results made it certain the battered sector will be a further drag on a weakening economy in the current quarter.
63) Finally, while the scheduling overhead of switching between threads is small, with many threads context switching can become a significant drag on your program's performance.
64) Very weak exports have continued to be the main drag on growth, while import volumes have recovered in the second quarter of 2009 as raw material imports rebounded.
65) The excessive resort to public ownership is a drag on economic development.
66) The uncompleted projects cannot drag on and on and require excessive investment.
67) Recent falling steel prices will inevitably drag on prices of raw materials.
68) Click and drag on a ruler to place a guide on an image.
69) It need not drag on for generations, but a five-minute frogmarch from scene of the crime to courthouse does not seem enough time for the necessary wisdom to accumulate.
70) The longer negotiations drag on, the greater the risk of permanent prevarication.
71) The Higgs boson creates a field that exerts a drag on certain types of particles.
72) He felt that his family was a drag on his success.
73) Entertainment is laid on too, in the form of drag on Wednesdays and strippers on Sundays.
74) Emergency austerity programmes in some countries will put a drag on growth.
75) He took a drag on his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke.
76) Since the lower regions of the cable are moving slower than the higher ones, a rising car will lag behind the orbiting anchor, causing a drag on the cable that could destabilize the entire assembly.
77) Americans fear the war would drag on, and the economy would go from bad to worse.
78) The professor took a long, deliberate drag on his fivecent cigar.
79) Despite his laudable attempts to bring the two sides together, the dispute continued to drag on.
80) Both new home and nonresidential construction were a drag on first-quarter growth.
81) Our shareholders know corruption is a drag on economies, taxes the poor, and strangles opportunity.
82) It is because you cannot feel for me[sentencedict.com/drag on.html], that I drag on this wearisome life.
83) Many another fellow in his place would have been a constant drag on his parents.
84) As he sat at the edge of town's main drag on a recent evening, watching cars motor by, Curley said the tribe was at risk of trading its heritage for dollar signs.
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