Word Finder - stretch

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An act of stretching.

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I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.

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The ability to lengthen when pulled.

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That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.

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A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.

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It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.

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A segment of a journey or route.

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It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.

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A segment or length of material.

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a stretch of cloth

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A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.

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A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.

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Term of address for a tall person.

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The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.

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A length of time.

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A stretch limousine.

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To lengthen by pulling.

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I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.

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To lengthen when pulled.

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The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.

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To pull tight.

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First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.

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To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

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I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.

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To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

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To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.

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To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

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The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.

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To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles

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Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.

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To extend to a limit point

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His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.

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To increase.

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To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

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a man apt to stretch in his report of facts

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To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

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The ship stretched to the eastward.

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To execute by hanging.

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To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.

That's a stretch and a tug.

She heard him stretch out on the ground and within minutes his breathing changed.

Very little would change in this seventy-year stretch of life.

It was a relief to stretch out in a restaurant booth.

Before the spark happens lines of electrostatic force stretch from one to the other in curved lines.

She knelt on the beach area consisting of a stretch of pebbles and dirt.

The lake is nowhere of great depth, and about midway numerous mud-banks, marshes, islands and dense growths of aqueous plants stretch across its surface.

The only riverain towns of any importance on this stretch of the river to-day are Samsat, Birejik, Deir, `Ana and Hit.

In fact, if you laid out all the DNA in your body, it would stretch from the sun to Pluto.

The extremities stretch two good miles, with raised convolutions..

These double and triple ranges, which have a general elevation of 8500-10,000 ft., stretch from the south-east angle of the Black Sea, 400 m.

When I made most noise he would stretch out his neck, and erect his neck feathers, and open his eyes wide; but their lids soon fell again, and he began to nod.

With the exception of a stretch of the March, none of the rivers are navigable.

Another stretch of marsh usually cuts off the northernmost part of the lake from the central sections.

Frederick placed judges of his own appointment, with the title of podest, in all the Lombard commu1ies; and this stretch of his authority, while it exacerbated his foes, forced even his friends to join their ranks against him.

In the stretch beyond Gabii it is only used as a track, and well preserved.

I was sometimes tempted to stretch an awning over them and take my seat there.

Lake Erie sits north of Ohio for a long stretch so to get into Canada going east; he'd enter in New York State, around Niagara Falls.

I remember how we used to walk this stretch every night, before the Schism.

A peculiar feature in which tropical Africa stands alone is that at least one-fifth and probably more of the species are common to both sides of the continent and presumably stretch right across it.

South of the lake two ranges of the Tian-shan, separated by the valley of the Naryn, stretch in the same direction, lifting up their icy peaks to 16,000 and 18,000 ft.; while westwards from the lake the precipitous slopes of the Alexander chain, 9000 to io,000 ft.

From the Khingan ranges to the Pacific, south of the Amur, stretch the rich districts of Manchuria, a province which connects Russia with the Korea by a series of valleys formed by the Sungari and its affluents - a land of hill and plain, forest and swamp, possessing a delightful climate, and vast undeveloped agricultural resources.

The western stretch of the river, opposite the city, breaks into rapids which have a fall of about 116 ft.

At this time the Visigoths who settled in Spain early in the 5th century were menaced by two powerful enemies, the Suevi who had a small kingdom in the north-west of the peninsula, and the Byzantines who had answered Athanagild's appeal for help by taking possession of a stretch of country in the south-east.

It was taking his muscles a long time to stretch.

She found herself admiring his body and forced her attention on reading one of the books she'd picked up during a trip to stretch her legs earlier.

His low growl made Jenn shift and stretch a hand to the small of her back, where she probably had at least one weapon stashed.

The blonde came down the stretch of beach, wearing even less than usual.

These processes stretch across the body cavity to be inserted in the dorsal and ventral middle lines.

She leaned against a wall, overlooking a stretch of rocky terrain punctuated with patches of yellow-green grass.

It was not a stretch, not with his muscular body pressed against her and his rugged features so close.

They stretch for 60 m.

There were no windows on the tiny craft, only the two of them and two benches long enough for them to stretch out on.

Now, that's a full-length stretch.

She leaned back against the bluff for a moment, gathering strength to stretch farther.

The antenna has at one moment a static electrical charge distributed upon it, and lines of electric force stretch from it to the surrounding earth.

But below that city it suddenly widens out, and the width gradually increases through the stretch of 350 m.

Past the fencing was a sandy stretch where the landmines awaited those foolish enough to cross.

This affords the largest stretch of arable land in eastern Canada, including the southern parts of Ontario and Quebec with an area of some 38,000 sq.

Labor and delivery can stretch over quite a few hours.

As he turned, the lights of a silent ambulance bounced across the long stretch of pasture between the highway and the mangled car.

The trail was clear and level ahead of her, so she let her long legs stretch out.

That's more of a stretch than trying to fit Gladys Turnbull in Annie's white dress.

Murder seems a real stretch, given lack of motive—nothing missing, no evidence or anything else usual to a homicide.

Of course, they can't maintain that for a long stretch.

It is fringed on either side by high border ridges, which -subside on the north-west into a stretch of high plains, 1500 to 2000 ft.

A wall and esplanade extend along the bottom of the cliffs, and there is a fine stretch of sandy beach.

They are named the Usinsk Mountains in West Sayan and the Tunka Alps in East Sayan; the latter, pierced by the Angara at Irkutsk, are in all probability continued north-east in the Baikal Mountains, which stretch from Irkutsk to Olkhon Island and the Svyatoi Nos peninsula of Lake Baikal, thus dividing the lake into two parts.?

Ejections of basaltic lava have been observed on the southern slope vo of this range, extending over wide areas on the plateau itself, over a stretch of more than 600 m.

The extensive lowlands which stretch over more than one half of the area, as well as the elevated plains, lie open to the Arctic Ocean.