stretched

How To Use stretched In A Sentence

• Migration into the cities is putting a strain on already stretched resources.
• Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
• When you pull a needleful through a hole, the wool is correctly positioned on a stretched canvas.
• The figures of his angels are elongated, with wings stretched upward as if they were sculpted by the Gothic masters.
• With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
• It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
• His reapplication for membership of the Party has stretched on for seven years.
• The sea stretched away to the distant horizon.
• I but stretched them up in the sun," she sniffled, "and we be poor people and have nothing. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
• Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore. CORMORANT