far-stretched
Example Sentences
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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2014
While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2011
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made!
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet.
From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock
Probably, however, the consideration that weighs most with the astronomer is that the condensation of such a loose, far-stretched expanse of matter affords an admirable explanation of the enormous heat of the stars.
From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
