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

In these images, cavernous bubbles and stretched-out filaments of gas etch a more detailed and complete tapestry of star birth than seen in the past.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 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

The risk of such consistently stretched-out timelines is that Metro won’t deliver the bus service it promises or achieve the bus electrification goals it set for itself.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023

The stars Slipher looked at showed unmistakable signs of a Doppler shift*–the same mechanism behind that distinctive stretched-out yee-yummm sound cars make as they flash past on a racetrack.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson