stretch of the imagination
Example Sentences
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Just like 2024’s troubled “It Ends with Us” — the first big-screen adaptation of one of Hoover’s novels— and last fall’s “Regretting You,” “Reminders of Him” isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
"Zirkzee isn't Eric Cantona, by any stretch of the imagination, but he needed to be out there for physicality, for presence, for experience."
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
"There will be some pensioners this year who aren't eligible for pensioners tax credit, but who are not well off by any stretch of the imagination," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2024
And, by any stretch of the imagination, it is Lee’s turn.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2023
“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole gifted.’
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
