English example sentences with "stretched"

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Aren't you stretched pretty thin already?

Then he stretched his legs and settled back in his seat.

The child stretched out his hand to his mother.

John stretched out on the couch.

This sweater is all stretched out of shape.

I stretched out my hand for the book.

The line of cars stretched all the way from the expressway to the city centre.

The cat arched its back and stretched itself.

He stretched and took a deep breath.

He stretched out his arm to take the book.

He stretched out his arm for a magazine.

Dad stretched after dinner.

My father was taking a nap on the sofa, with his legs stretched toward the fire.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches, in numbers this nation has never seen. By people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

The ocean stretched as far as the eye could see.

When I opened the door, I found her naked, stretched on the sofa.

My father stretched after dinner.

She stretched every day in order to become able to do the splits.

She stretched to relieve the stiffness in her back.

She stretched by arching her back.

The Martian red desert stretched beyond and around me as I was wearing a spacesuit with oxygen tanks. The air outside was thinner, of course, than the Earth's. There was some breeze that would otherwise blow tumbleweeds on Earth's own deserts.

He stretched his arms and welcomed us.

I stretched out my arms.

I stretched out my legs.

A bow stretched too far will break.

When I woke up today, I yawned, stretched, rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and put on a pair of slippers.

She stretched out her legs.

When it was stretched, the material tore.

He has stretched earlobes.

After the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long, it seemed endless.

After the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long, it seemed endless.

After the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long, it seemed endless.

These were his last words. He closed his eyes, opened his mouth, stretched out his legs, and hung there, as if he were dead.

The hedgehog's snout stretched upwards in curiosity.

Tom stretched out his legs.

I stretched one.

She stretched the rope.

The line was huge and stretched all the way around the block.

Tom was stretched out on a sofa.

Tom was stretched out on the floor.

Mary stretched the clothesline between the trees.

Tom stretched out on the couch.

Mary, frightened, stretched out her arms to hold me.

We're stretched a little thin.

Tom stretched himself out.

The next morning, Link woke up at seven o'clock, refreshed and brimming with anticipation. "Gee!" he stretched luxuriously and pressed the button on top of the Kingface alarm clock. "Oh boy, the day has finally come! I can't wait!" he mused on his way to the dining hall. "Morning, Link," the King gave him his typical greeting. "Munf-Munf? We ran outta Linky-O's. Gwonam has eaten them all." "Problem, guys?" said Gwonam with a smirk, but neither paid any attention to it. "Wow, thanks!" Link dug in enthusiastically, disregarding the strong taste that nearly made his eyes bulge. It was his own fault he let Gwonam beat him to it, after all.

The cat was lying stretched out at full length in the sunlight streaming through the window.

At the foot of the mountain, the fields stretched far and wide and in these fields the cherry blossoms were in bloom, giving off a sweet scent.

We stretched out our arms.

He stretched his arm.

Tom stretched out on a beach towel.

Mary stretched out on her beach towel and fell asleep.

Tom stretched out on the sofa and fell asleep.

Tom stretched out on the floor and fell asleep.

Tom stretched out on the couch and fell asleep.

Tom stretched out on the grass and fell asleep.

Tom turned on the TV, stretched out on the bed, and fell asleep.

Mary stretched out on a lounge chair besides the pool.

In the northeast Pacific, a widespread bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia algae stretched off the North American coast from southern California to British Columbia during spring and summer 2015.

The line stretched around the corner.

The line outside the club stretched around the corner.

The line stretched down the block and around the corner.

The poor man was stretched out on the ground, unconscious.

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Tom stretched his legs.

Mary stretched her legs.

Keep the rope stretched tight.

The great salt plain stretched before his eyes, and the distant belt of savage mountains, without a sign anywhere of plant or tree, which might indicate the presence of moisture.

Mary stretched her arms above her head.

Tom stretched his arms high above his head.

Mary stretched like a cat.

Broad bars of golden light from the lower windows stretched across the orchard and the moor.

A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the branches there jutted out the gray gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion.

Tom leaned back and stretched his arms over his head.

Then AEneas' limbs with fear / were loosened, and he groaned and stretched his hands in prayer. / "Thrice, four times blest, who, in their fathers' face / fell by the walls of Ilion far away!"

Tom was stretched out on a chaise longue.

Mary was stretched out on a chaise longue by the pool.

An hour later, when we entered the house, we found him stretched dead drunk upon the dining-room sofa.

Holmes stretched upon the sofa, while Hayter and I looked over his little armoury of Eastern weapons.

Tom stretched and took a deep breath.

Close by the water, in a sheltered bay, / a few guardians of the oars we choose, / then stretched at random on the beach we lay / our limbs to rest, and on the toil-worn crews / sleep steals in silence down, and sheds her kindly dews.

Mary stretched out her legs.

He stretched his legs.

She stretched her legs.

He stretched out his legs.

Our visitor stretched forward a quivering hand and picked up the Daily Telegraph, which still lay upon Holmes’ knee.

Tom and Mary stretched their legs.

They stretched their legs.

While the nymph gazed, the infant opened its eyes, smiled upon her, and stretched out two dimpled arms.

My nerves are stretched to the limit.

No flowers grew there, no seaweed, only the bare gray sands, stretched toward the whirlpools, which like rushing millwheels swirled round, dragging everything that came within reach down to the depths.

And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.

And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

And when Moses was gone from Pharaoh out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.

And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be hereafter.

And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

The French destroyed dozens and dozens of Kabyle villages during the French occupation that stretched from 1830 to 1962.

And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

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