stretched-out

Example Sentences

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“The first EP was this whole story of giving birth to yourself, this giant stretched-out muse,” Isella said, leaning into a stem-winder about the genesis of art.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

The new image shows that the cocoon is stretched-out, which surprised scientists, who expected a different shape based on previous observations and computer models.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Then, big global winds in the lower few miles of the atmosphere accelerate those amped-up, stretched-out, water-rich versions of normal storms.

From National Geographic • Jan. 25, 2024

“Some of his stretched-out, sliding licks would have been appropriate in Hawaiian music, a jazz band or a ’50s science-fiction movie,” Roger Levesque wrote in a 2000 concert review for the Edmonton Journal.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

Which, after a long, stretched-out moment, is what I do, my tears blurring the sea of faces.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau