STRETCHED in a Sentence
Learn STRETCHED 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 STRETCHED, such as:
1. That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
2. The sea stretched away to the distant horizon.
3. His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
4. He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
5. The race really stretched him/his skill as a runner.
2. The sea stretched away to the distant horizon.
3. His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
4. He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
5. The race really stretched him/his skill as a runner.
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Meanings and Examples of STRETCHED
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stretch
n. the capacity for being stretched
a. easily stretched
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
2 A mournful peace hung on the fields, as though they felt the relaxing grasp of the cold and stretched themselves in their long winter sleep.
3 A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.
4 He sat down, drew his pipe from his pocket and stretched his feet to the glow.
5 For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
6 He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
7 He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the snow.
8 Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
9 The monotonous rows of soldiers' graves at Oakland Cemetery stretched longer every day.
10 He stretched out his long legs in their scarred high boots for them to admire.
11 Nerves which had been stretched tighter and tighter each day of the retreat began to reach the breaking point.
12 Lying in the pitiless sun, shoulder to shoulder, head to feet, were hundreds of wounded men, lining the tracks, the sidewalks, stretched out in endless rows under the car shed.
13 So she had unharnessed him and crawled, sodden with fatigue, into the back of the wagon and stretched her aching legs.
14 They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
15 Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 In gymnastics, a layout is a position in which the gymnast's body is completely stretched, toes pointed and legs straight.
2 When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment.
3 She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom.
4 Sid yawned, stretched, then brought himself up on his elbow, and began to stare at Tom.
5 While maybe the metaphor is a little stretched, Sharon's comparison is mostly brilliant.
6 Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like an oval.
7 The sea stretched away to the distant horizon.
8 She nearly fell down by stumbling over my stretched leg.
9 He admitted that he had maybe stretched the truth a little.
10 The race really stretched him/his skill as a runner.
11 His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
12 He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch.
13 You can enjoy the extraordinary sight unbroken cloud plains that stretch out before you.
14 That elastic band will snap if you stretch it too far.
15 That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.