stretch of the imagination
Example Sentences
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Just like 2024’s troubled “It Ends with Us” — the first big-screen adaptation of one of Hoover’s novels— and last fall’s “Regretting You,” “Reminders of Him” isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
"Zirkzee isn't Eric Cantona, by any stretch of the imagination, but he needed to be out there for physicality, for presence, for experience."
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
This was not Villa's finest display by any stretch of the imagination but they dug deep to stay alive in the tie when 2-0 down before Cash provided a late lifeline.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024
It was, by any stretch of the imagination, a crushing defeat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024
“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole gifted.’
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
