stretch
Example Sentences
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While Alabama may be fueled by external criticism and its underdog role, the team is spending its last stretch before the Rose Bowl focused on blocking out outside noise and embracing its internal standard.
From Los Angeles Times
But it angered suppliers by announcing it would stretch terms for new orders to 90 days of receipt instead of the traditional 60-day window.
Hordle Cliff, near Christchurch on England's south coast, preserves fossils from the Eocene, a stretch of time from about 56 to 34 million years ago.
From Science Daily
Last season, they endured a stretch of only two wins from mid-December through the final week of February.
From BBC
“While today’s progression appears to be a slightly more stretched version of last decade’s issues and fixes,” the firm wrote, “it seems to be moving in the right direction.”
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
