Examples of stretch

• The plastic cover was stretched tight across the tank.

• I stretched out and listened to the sound of the rushing stream.

• The cat was stretching in front of the fire.

• Yoga is a great way to stretch your body.

• I get up and walk around every half hour just to stretch my legs.

• The road stretched into the distance as far as the eye could see.

• The mountain range stretched away into infinity.

• A broad sweep of flat countryside stretched to the horizon in all directions.

• On the eastern horizon, a huge cloud of smoke from burning oil tanks stretched across the sky.

• A ribbon of road stretched ahead of us across the desert.

• There has been a collision on the southbound stretch of the motorway.

• This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.

• This stretch of water is heavily used by shipping.

• There have been many shipwrecks along this dangerous stretch of coastline.

• The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.

• In a sense, our relationships with places are similar to those which we have with other people: dialogical, stretched across time, and constantly in motion.

• An escalating brutality demonstrated by the 221st against local civilians derived from its increasingly stretched circumstances and the growing threat of the enemy.

• The same perception differences apply with commonly used procedures in composition such as transposition, stretching or superposition of sounds.

• The subtleties of balancing stretches of time in the alap further extend to the internal structuring of phrases.

• The second is that the development of most systems of service provision entails the creation of platforms of activities stretching across sectors and industries.

• Quartz-feldspar ribbons and aggregates define a mineral stretching lineation.

• The stretching lineation is associated with the formation of early ductile, high-temperature-type folds.

• On the other hand, the stretching process does not multiply all frequencies by the same value: the factor is an exponential function of frequency.

• Like an aggressive carcinoma, realizability stretches out its tentacles to ever more remote fields: linear logic, complexity theory and rewrite theory have already been infected.

• Modern society has witnessed increased longevity and this has raised expectations that the life-span will continue to be stretched.

• In this she neither stretches too far in matching fundamentalism for fundamentalism, nor strains to import one location's mores into another's.

• One refers to movement and social relations stretched across multiple borders, and the other to a sense of self and group identity that differentiates communities.

• There is nothing gradual about a deep-sea migration, and boundaries are intrinsically sharp when speech communities are separated by large stretches of ocean.

• Currently, the formation of non-enzymic intermolecular triplexes is limited to purine-rich stretches in the targeted duplex.

• The stiff string no longer has a strictly harmonic overtone recipe, with intervals becoming increasingly stretched between higher modes.