stretched-out
Example Sentences
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“The first EP was this whole story of giving birth to yourself, this giant stretched-out muse,” Isella said, leaning into a stem-winder about the genesis of art.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025
The new image shows that the cocoon is stretched-out, which surprised scientists, who expected a different shape based on previous observations and computer models.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
Then, big global winds in the lower few miles of the atmosphere accelerate those amped-up, stretched-out, water-rich versions of normal storms.
From National Geographic • Jan. 25, 2024
Airlines handled with ease the first weekend in what they say is a new, stretched-out Thanksgiving travel window, an early sign their optimism heading into a critical holiday period is well-founded.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022
In those days metals were cast into various shapes called ingots, and included in the ship’s cargo were thirty-four four-handled copper ingots called oxhide ingots because they were shaped like a stretched-out oxhide.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
