stretch

Example Sentences

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That marks the stock’s best three-day stretch since late July 2025.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The 21-year-old James has played in five consecutive games, tying his longest stretch of his second pro season.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The U.S. trade deficit increased in February, continuing a bumpy stretch for international flows of goods amid fast-changing U.S. policy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Tonight, all attention will turn to Launch Pad 39B - the same historic stretch of concrete from which the US Apollo programme first landed men on the Moon in 1969.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The job guarantees that I’m awake for at least eight hours at a stretch.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse