stretching

Example Sentences

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Outstretching his hands in a signature Donald Trump pose, impersonator Ryan Chen mimics the US president's voice and gestures with such accuracy that he has become a social media phenomenon with his funny videos.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

Outstretching both her arms to her sides and raising them up over her head to describe a giant nimbus or clamshell, she intoned, “No.”

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

And now farewell: Girt with enormous night I am borne away, Outstretching toward thee, thine, alas! no more, These helpless hands.'

From The Georgics by Virgil

Outstretching my hand I asked "Tommy" to help me up, and this he did.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.

Ay, let him lift from the billowy drift His hoary, haggard form, And scowling stand, with his wrinkled hand Outstretching to the storm.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert