After a drawn-out fight, Wells won its prize but the bitterness of the battle lingered.

The long drawn-out fight took several years to sort out.

What starts off as an innocent boy meets girl romance soon turns into a drawn-out fight for power and love.

We cannot afford to have America tied up every four years in a debil-itating drawn-out legal fight over elections.

Like most long drawn-out fights, they eventually reached an impasse.

Although this may be an exaggeration, it does suggest that it was a long, drawn-out fight.

We're looking at a long, drawn-out legal fight that federal prosecutors are not certain they can win.

Google had announced its surprise decision by saying that it did not want to take part in a drawn-out fight.

He knows that a drawn-out fight over the primary results would undermine that goal.

"This is going to be a long, drawn-out fight between two sides who don't want to reach a compromise."