stretch
Example Sentences
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TN: Knecht was playing with a lot of confidence through a brief stretch of this season, exhibited most by him taking charges in consecutive games against the Pelicans and the Spurs.
From Los Angeles Times
Soon, she’ll be released back into the San Gabriel River, where she was found and where a population of her kind resides — in a stretch where salt and fresh water comingle.
From Los Angeles Times
But Helen Fisher, who now runs advice services herself, said she feared people were now being sent to online services that left them confused and missing out when their finances were already severely stretched.
From BBC
I sit up taller and stretch my arms above my head.
From Literature
Consumer confidence dropped in January to the lowest level recorded by The Conference Board’s survey in more than a decade, a warning sign that a relatively steady stretch of economic data may yet prove fragile.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
