stretched
Example Sentences
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Analysts, however, warn valuations have become stretched, while growing opposition to energy-guzzling data-centre projects also poses a risk.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
It is also more financially stretched; its debt-to-equity ratio is higher than Microsoft’s or Alphabet’s, and it is unclear how it can keep raising spending without borrowing a ton more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
When his fresh water ran out on July 11, he collected drinking water by filling buckets with seawater and capturing the condensation beneath plastic bags he stretched over the buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Cambridgeshire Constabulary says it was "very stretched" on the January day last year when Mathew Latta's farm was invaded, and the force says it did not respond the way it would have wanted.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Before her stretched a vast treeless waste, where heather and dwarf willow hugged the ground in a vain attempt to avoid the wind; where small peat-brown lakes shivered amid tossing marsh grass.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
