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

Airlines handled with ease the first weekend in what they say is a new, stretched-out Thanksgiving travel window, an early sign their optimism heading into a critical holiday period is well-founded.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

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