stretch out
Example Sentences
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People who inherited retirement accounts before 2020 could stretch out required distributions over their lifetimes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Shekinah Samayah-Thomas says she has been trying to stretch out her remaining supply of Wegovy since January, when California's medicaid programme stopped covering it for weight loss.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Jellyfish galaxies get their name from the long, flowing streams of gas that stretch out behind them, resembling tentacles.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Set in the aftermath of Trial of Seven, Episode 6 involved “a lot of creation” to stretch out the remaining events from the source material.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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