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UK
/stɹˈɛtʃt/
]
[ US /ˈstɹɛtʃt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹɛtʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extended or spread over a wide area or distance
broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us -
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury
How To Use stretched In A Sentence
- I love London particularly for that layered feel, for its glorious haphazardness and its unique personality, which Peter Ackroyd personisifes as William Blake's Glad Day: a radiant youth with his arms outstretched against rainbow light. MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building
- 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