Stretch

I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.

The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.

The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.

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

I always stretch my muscles before exercising.

When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.

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.

Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.

Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan.

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

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

To say he's been to this park a million times is stretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.

Her bizarre explanation really stretches credulity.

By the fullest exploitation of modern signalling, multiple-unit operation and flying and burrowing junctions the S.R. has greatly increased the capacity of its tracks to carry this growing load of peak-hour passengers, but that capacity is now stretched to the limit.

Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.

As I sat in the waiting room, the minutes stretched into hours.

Unless we rekindle our communication skills, the 2020s "loneliness epidemic" could stretch into a "solitary century."

The ship stretched to the eastward.

Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]

a man apt to stretch in his report of facts

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

That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.

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

To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.

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

It's a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.

a stretch of cloth

In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.

“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.

Amelia: I mean, you're already a dwarf. Gura: Oh, OK, Stretch.

After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]

There is a grand stretch in the evenings.

The '42 Cardinals are best known for their amazing stretch run. St. Louis won 43 of their last 51 games and came back from a double-digit deficit in games in early August to edge out the Dodgers for the N.L. flag.

"Of course, if Cripps likes to stay here and do a stretch for burglary, well and good."

He did a seven-year stretch in jail.