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
So you go to the doctor, she takes it out real quick, and pretty soon you forget how it felt to have a sore, stuffed-up, stretched-out nose.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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