stretched
IPA: strˈɛtʃt
adjective
- (of the body) extended to full length
- extended or spread over a wide area or distance
- (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
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Examples of "stretched" in Sentences
- He stretched the hair band.
- The boy stretched his arms.
- The fabric is slightly stretched by the strut.
- If the lady is not out of shape then it is only age that made the elbow and other skin stretched out.
- A single steel column in the center of the room stretched from the floor to the ceiling, intersecting the catwalk.
- “Somebody or something just takes him away, and there’s nothing—” the word stretched into a moan “—nothing we can do.”
- This is a remnant of the ancient Forest of Caledon that is reputed to have once stretched from the Beauly Firth to the Argyll coast.
- The men around me were a horror: walking corpses of skin stretched tight over bone; sunken eyes and cheeks making their faces show too much of the skull beneath.
- For this I was criticized by those who appreciate the combination of firearms, streetwalker fashion, and boob-skin stretched to the absolute limits of elasticity.
- The latest of six Toyodas to run the company since it was established in 1937, Akio outlined bold, specific steps to reverse what he described as a stretched expansion that had weakened Toyota's traditional strengths.
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