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
But, Newsom warned, the night would be worse: “By no stretch of the imagination are we out of the woods.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
It's not a stretch of the imagination to think that the company's attitude to keeping the existing blast furnaces running might be different if the plant was profitable.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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
