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464 examples of Stretch in a sentence

It's a stretch of beach we know so well.
So the first time she realizes that Wonder Woman isn't coming, I'll make sure she knows she doesn't have to wear the cape all by herself, because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal.
When I finally reached the top of that hill, I turned left onto a very lonely 15-mile stretch onto the Queen K Highway, totally exhausted.
While this is happening, scientists and engineers are on the airplane for eight hours at a stretch, making sure that the radar's working.
But the gift that my gorgeous daughter has given me, aside from her very existence, is that it's opened my eyes to a whole stretch of the community that was hitherto hidden, the community of disabled people.
And if it's even more silent, they stretch their necks out.
In fact, this flagelliform fiber can actually stretch over twice its original length.
If it wasn't able to stretch so much, then basically when an insect hit the web, it would just trampoline right off of it.
Now just to orient you, each box is showing the firing patterns of several cells, and just as in the previous slides, each row is a different cell, and I just made the pulses a little bit smaller and thinner so I could show you a long stretch of data.
So I'm going to spread it out a little bit here, stretch it for you, and what I'm doing here is I put the actual transcript there along with the text.
So if each star was the size of a single grain of sand, just the Milky Way has enough stars to fill a 30-foot by 30-foot stretch of beach three feet deep with sand.
Now rather than just argue about this number, a copyright mathematician will analyze it and he'll soon discover that this money could stretch from this auditorium all the way across Ocean Boulevard to the Westin, and then to Mars ... (Laughter) ... if we use pennies.
50 billion dollars of it a year, which is enough, at 30 seconds a ringtone, that could stretch from here to Neanderthal times.
So astronomers in the far future looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness.
They can stretch.
And if we're less likely to be trusted, we're less likely to be given stretch assignments.
And without those stretch assignments, we're less likely to get promoted, and so on and so on until we are super depressed by the demographic tendencies of our senior leadership.
So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space, you're basically opening up.
They stretch across the ocean.
But they knew that the sheer length of this journey would stretch their supplies of food and water.
A simple change to the legislative calendar, such as having business stretch out for three weeks and then they get a week off to go home, that would change the fundamental relationships in Congress.
So it's not too far of a stretch to say that some of these behaviors that we're seeing in the California two-spot octopus are similar to ours.
Architects can stretch or rotate the models with their two hands directly.
And the next day, when I woke up in the absence of telephones and TVs and laptops, the days seemed to stretch for a thousand hours.
They're used for a higher purpose, and that's to get collective commitment to truly stretch goals.
In reality, the relationship between the living and the dead has its own drama in the U.S. healthcare system, where decisions about how long to stretch the thread of life are made based on our emotional and social ties with the people around us, not just on medicine's ability to prolong life.
And we can then apply mechanical forces to the chip that stretch and contract the membrane, so the cells experience the same mechanical forces that they did when we breathe.
So for example, your mother raises her hands to stretch, and you imitate her behavior.
And what they do is, when there are many ants in a small space, then each one can search very thoroughly because there will be another ant nearby searching over there, but when there are a few ants in a large space, then they need to stretch out their paths to cover more ground.
Finally, by moving the laryngeal muscles between the cartilages, we can stretch and contract those folds to intuitively play our internal instruments.
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