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

So many times every minute his left arm swept out into the sunlight as he flung it forward with far-stretched palm.

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

Probably, however, the consideration that weighs most with the astronomer is that the condensation of such a loose, far-stretched expanse of matter affords an admirable explanation of the enormous heat of the stars.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

A feeling of anxious discomfort seizes upon the wanderer, he hastens with redoubled speed through the far-stretched deserts, and eagerly ascends the mountains piled up before him, in the hope that better things lie beyond. 

From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Pfeiffer, Ida