STRETCH in a Sentence
Learn STRETCH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
247 example sentences for STRETCH, such as:
1. A great stretch of ocean lay beneath them.
2. Let's stretch our legs, said another voice.
3. That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
4. You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
5. He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
2. Let's stretch our legs, said another voice.
3. That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
4. You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
5. He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of STRETCH
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stretch
n. the capacity for being stretched
a. easily stretched
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2 All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grain-land, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
3 It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
4 Nature had provided a stretch of turf half a mile in length and level, till it suddenly dipped to the lily pool.
5 Let's stretch our legs, said another voice.
6 I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience.
7 The greater length of the service, however, I admit to be sometimes too hard a stretch upon the mind.
8 Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
9 The sombre stretch of rounds and hollows seemed to rise and meet the evening gloom in pure sympathy, the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
10 None of its features could be seen now, but the whole made itself felt as a vague stretch of remoteness.
11 By no stretch of meaning could any but a harmless construction be placed upon a single one of the letters themselves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
12 I fancy the yew alley, though not marked under that name, must stretch along this line, with the moor, as you perceive, upon the right of it.
13 Holmes and the Inspector led us round it until we came to the side gate, which is separated by a stretch of garden from the hedge which lines the road.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
14 "I am glad to stretch myself, Watson," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
15 But you can imagine how surprised I was, Mr. Holmes, when, on my return on the Monday, I saw the same man on the same stretch of road.
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
2 You can enjoy the extraordinary sight unbroken cloud plains that stretch out before you.
3 That elastic band will snap if you stretch it too far.
4 That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
5 A great stretch of ocean lay beneath them.
6 You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
7 Shallow Pools and Crevices Considerable variation in shore fauna can occur even in the same stretch of coast.
8 This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with walkers.
9 I'd like to stretch my mortgage payments out over a longer period if possible.
10 The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.
11 Unsettled weather will stretch from the middle Mississippi Valley to the southern Middle Atlantic States.
12 They've already undergone surgery to stretch their skin.
13 Copper is an extremely ductile material: you can stretch it into the thinnest of wires, bend it, even wind it into loops.
14 My habit is to just stare at a long stretch of river looking for any signs of fish movement.
15 For a fortnight he and his companion Dimitri Kieffer pulled their equipment over the eighty kilometre stretch of frozen water with the sounds of ice breaking just a few miles behind them.