far-stretched
Example Sentences
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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2014
While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2011
Probably, however, the consideration that weighs most with the astronomer is that the condensation of such a loose, far-stretched expanse of matter affords an admirable explanation of the enormous heat of the stars.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
On the other hand, idle, far-stretched gossip was rife and was even growing in extravagance as the evening wore on.
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
With shop-board breeding and intrusion, By some outlandish institution, With Calvin's method and conclusion, To bring all things into confusion, And far-stretched sighs for mere illusion; 'Tis a new teacher, etc.
From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Mackay, Charles
