We found 37 examples of how to use stretching in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 37.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | That's stretching the point. | |
| 2. | The ballerinas around the walls are stretching their legs and feet so their muscles will not become stiff. | |
| 3. | The path stretching from that house to the bamboo thicket was laid with stone paving. | |
| 4. | In order to cross from one sentence to the other, Tom was stretching out his arm. Mary clung firmly onto it and jumped over the dot, avoiding to fall into the space. | |
| 5. | Anyone who has never strung a spinet, clavichord, or harpsichord cannot imagine what kinds of problems can arise, from the choice of strings, to the actual stretching of the strings until they are tuned. | |
| 6. | He ran a hand through his habitually rumpled hair, stretching his neck until it cracked. | |
| 7. | Tom stopped stretching. | |
| 8. | I wouldn't mind stretching my legs a little. | |
| 9. | I was just stretching my legs. | |
| 10. | I was worried about stretching ourselves too thin financially. | |
| 11. | Stop yawning and stretching. | |
| 12. | Mary's yawning and stretching. | |
| 13. | I like doing stretching exercises at dusk. | |
| 14. | I'm not stretching them. | |
| 15. | When her alarm clock sounded, Mary was already yawning and stretching. | |
| 16. | I think that's stretching it. | |
| 17. | That poodle has an immaculate pedigree, with illustrious ancestors on both sides stretching back generations. | |
| 18. | Stretching out the rubber band will elongate it considerably. | |
| 19. | "How long you have stayed!" said she, yawning, rubbing her eyes, and stretching herself as if she had been just awakened. | |
| 20. | They are part of an expressive tradition stretching all the way back to Elizabethan pamphlets, with particular roots in fanzines and feminist expression of the 1990s. | |
| 21. | The Valles Marineris canyon on Mars is even deeper and much longer than Tsangpo Canyon, measuring 10 miles deep and stretching about 3,000 miles across, which is about the width of the continental U.S. | |
| 22. | With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!" | |
| 23. | Dragged by her tresses from Minerva's fane, / Cassandra comes, the Priameian maid, / stretching to heaven her burning eyes in vain, / her eyes, for bonds her tender hands constrain. | |
| 24. | At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, "Good-by." "Oh, I cannot bear it - my heart will break," said Dorothea, starting from her seat, the flood of her young passion bearing down all the obstructions which had kept her silent - the great tears rising and falling in an instant: "I don't mind about poverty-I hate my wealth." | |
| 25. | He loved to lie in the very centre of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime. |