stretch
Example Sentences
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They travel to play the Hammers on Tuesday, so they may prioritise that game and rest players here - it is that time of year where every squad is stretched.
From BBC
The gene was located within a stretch of DNA that explained nearly 20 percent of the variation in attention among the mice.
From Science Daily
Mountain lions have the widest geographic range of any native mammal in the Americas apart from humans, stretching from western Canada to Argentina.
From Barron's
“I was not eating properly,” she writes of one hard stretch, “or sleeping that well either,” and eventually required hospitalization.
Less than 30 hours later, the dust settled on a mind-boggling stretch that confirmed a wholesale changing of the guard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
