stretch
Example Sentences
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The conflict stretched into Monday, prompting Weiss to address it in an editorial meeting with staff.
There, makeshift camps stretch as far as the eye can see, housing tens of thousands of Palestinians who fled the fighting.
From Barron's
“Conditions are unsafe, and first responders are already stretched thin,” Caltrans said in an alert Monday.
From Los Angeles Times
“At a time when families are working exceptionally hard to stretch every grocery dollar, those tests raised concerns.”
From Los Angeles Times
With her windswept head stretched far out the car window, she seemed a canine Gen. Patton scanning the horizon in the race to Messina.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
