far-stretched
Example Sentences
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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2014
While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2011
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made!
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet.
From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Lubbock, Percy
With shop-board breeding and intrusion, By some outlandish institution, With Calvin's method and conclusion, To bring all things into confusion, And far-stretched sighs for mere illusion; 'Tis a new teacher, etc.
From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Mackay, Charles
