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• a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
• Here you stretch to your farthest point and hold the stretch.
• A stretch is a segment of a journey or route.
• “Hey, Stretch,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.
• After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever [...]
• He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
• It's a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.
• It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
• It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
• That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
• To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
• I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
• The ship stretched to the eastward.
• I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
• Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.
• His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.
• I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
• Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
• The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
• Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[...]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
• To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
• I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
• First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
• The inner membrane [...] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
• The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.