rubber band

Example Sentences

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But sometimes a disturbance can cause the polar vortex to stretch like a rubber band.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

After that, it would begin to shrink, eventually collapsing back into a single point, much like a stretched rubber band snapping back.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

Its price is now over 100% above its 200-day moving average, which means the “proverbial rubber band is extremely stretched,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 25, 2026

"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

She rarely goes to mass, but she’s got the required crucifix over the kitchen doorway, the rosary in the dresser drawer, and the stack of dead relatives’ funeral cards, held together with a rubber band.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti