Stretched Sentence Examples
There he stretched out his long legs and sipped at the cup of coffee.
Cade stretched and yawned.
The manor stretched into three long wings.
The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose stretched away toward the prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary, affording ample room for all the roving families of men.
Cramped, she stretched before approaching him again.
Eureka yawned and stretched herself.
The dark sky stretched far overhead, no sign of morning yet visible.
The man who had wakened yawned and stretched himself.
Dean stretched and extinguished the bedside lamp but neither slept.
She stretched and sat up, reaching for her clothes.
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The man stretched out his legs in front of him.
Milka, a black-spotted, broad-haunched bitch with prominent black eyes, got up on seeing her master, stretched her hind legs, lay down like a hare, and then suddenly jumped up and licked him right on his nose and mustache.
This time she stretched her arms around his waist without hesitation.
In places the wild muscadine and scuppernong vines stretched from tree to tree, making arbours which were always full of butterflies and buzzing insects.
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Not wanting to be around to hear Claire get her way, Sofia climbed onto the edge of Damian's balcony and stretched upward toward the ledge running around the mansion.
Fred was stretched out on the bed, fully dressed and looking like a funeral home customer.
His skin was smooth and warm, stretched taut over an athletic body.
I felt approaching footsteps, I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother.
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His gaze traveled her body as she bent over the bed and stretched for a maroon sweater.
She'd run her hands over his perfect body, marveling at the smooth skin stretched over solid muscle.
The doll cried, too, and stretched out its arms from among the green branches, and looked distressed.
From the cave we have advanced to roofs of palm leaves, of bark and boughs, of linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles.
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A wide porch stretched the length of the building, and above it were two balconies with black wrought iron banisters that curved out gracefully.
She pulled the lawn chair into the shade under a tree and stretched out, closing her eyes and simply listening to the birds.
She stretched and tried to relax, but her mind kept returning to Cade - thinking of his warm touch on the palm of her hand.
She stretched and climbed out of bed.
She stretched; realizing her back was getting sore.
She found herself watching Gabriel as he stretched upwards to fix the lights.
His shirt stretched tightly over his shoulders and across his back while his biceps flexed and the roped muscles of his forearms rippled with his tinkering.
When they passed over a field of grass Jim immediately stretched down his head and began to nibble.
I started up and instinctively stretched out my hands.
There was an odour of print and leather in the room which told me that it was full of books, and I stretched out my hand instinctively to find them.
The soft whispering voice continued its rhythmic murmur, something oppressed him and stretched out, and the strange face was before him.
When he pulled the covers over her, she stretched out and fell asleep again.
Bordeaux was stretched on the sand outside the firelight, leaning on one elbow while he ate.
Gabriel stretched towards her slowly.
Gabriel stretched towards her slowly, afraid of spooking her.
So the problem must be that we have stretched the planet past its ability to feed its inhabitants, right?
He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight.
He rose and stretched, stiff and weak but healed.
She stood on her toes and stretched upward to kiss his lips.
Jule wrapped himself in the blanket and stretched out on the floor, hungry and chilled.
Jule stretched his neck back and shook out his arms in the cold night.
He paused in the middle of the lawn that stretched between the house and the massive garage.
She rose and stretched then left the small house on a hill for a quick walk.
He stretched and yawned, and then reached for his clothes.
Deidre stretched upwards to grab another carafe.
She stretched and walked around, gradually gaining feeling in her legs.
To escape the smiling innkeeper role, he plodded barefoot out back to the small patio, fired up the barbeque, popped the cap on the first of the last three Fat Tire Ales and stretched out on Cynthia's chaise.
I could have stretched the offer to a thou!
July stretched into August, and just before the election, Jennifer Radisson spent her promised week at Bird Song.
With effort, Deidre hauled herself up onto a branch, wrapped her legs around it in a careful balancing act then stretched upward for the next.
She stretched and stood.
Dorothy laughed and stretched out her hands.
In the forest he would be thought ungainly, because his face is stretched out and his neck is uselessly long.
She stretched out on the hard cold rocks and fell asleep.
The death dealer touched the paper again, and another orchid appeared, stretched, and morphed into a second fairy.
Already she began to see quite plainly the little elves in their tall pointed hats, dancing down the dusky alleys, and peeping from between the bushes, and they seemed to come nearer and nearer; and she stretched her hands up towards the tree in which the doll sat and they laughed, and pointed their fingers at her.
He wore a red mantle, and stretched his long legs forward in French fashion.
He leaned back in his chair again and stretched his legs out, his piercing gaze sorting through the secrets of her mind.
He stood and stretched.
She kicked off her shoes and stretched out on the couch, lacing fingers behind her head.
Betsy rose, unkinked her arm and stretched.
Deidre stretched but couldn't reach.
With a glance at the demon lord, she stretched to grab it and rose.
His back was to her, his arms crossed, and his t-shirt stretched tightly across his thick back and shoulders.
When Deidre was close enough, Gabriel stretched out and gripped the rope looped under her shoulders.
Wynn stretched across the distance to grasp it as it started to slide from her hands.
Rhyn stretched physically and metaphysically, testing the bounds of Hell.
She stretched for the counter and tugged the bag off, handing it to him.
Rhyn stretched out on the ground of his cell to stare at the ceiling.
He moved the sword off her favorite chair without answering and placed it on the trench stretched across her couch.
We need to talk! he called cheerfully, then spun and started toward the conference room at the end of a lab that stretched the size of a football field.
He was muscular and tall, clothed in dark jeans, a snug grey T-shirt that hugged his biceps and stretched across his chest and back and then sagged at his slender torso and hips, and a round black medallion that fell from his T-shirt as he leaned over her.
It's kind of like… Ully looked around and stretched for the pen on the table.
She set the blue water pills on her pillow and stretched back.
The robed man stretched for her.
Arms, tentacles, and antennae stretched for it.
Verdant forests stretched to the steely sky, a swath of green, brown, and grey.
She shook out her arms and stretched, cold in the early morning air.
The lush Scottish Highlands around him were covered in a blanket of snow that stretched for miles, the white world interrupted only by a few narrow roads snaking in different directions.
His back was towards her, the expanse of golden skin stretched over bulging muscles startling her.
Over the stretched wire moves a contact maker S, which makes contact with it at any desired point, the position of which can be ascertained by means of an underlying scale.
In the Echinoidea the water-canals and associated structures, ending in the terminal plates, stretched right up to these genital plates; but in the Asteroidea they never reached the aboral surface, so that the terminals have always been separated from the aboral pole by a number of plates.
The anterior part of the palate is composed of mucous membrane tightly stretched over the flat or slightly concave bony layer which separates the mouth from the nasal passages, and is generally raised into a series of transverse ridges, which sometimes, as in ruminants, attain a considerable development.
It is a light boat, oval in shape, and formed of canvas stretched on a framework of split and interwoven rods, and well-coated with tar and pitch to render it water-tight.
It stretched along the valley of the Main from the Rhine to Bohemia, and was bounded on the north by Saxony and Thuringia, and on the south by Swabia and Bavaria.
Wires are frequently stretched across a room overhead, probably with the idea that they will prevent the voice from reaching the roof and being reflected there, but there is no reason to suppose that they are efficient.
Over the upper surface was stretched a white-dressed reindeer skin, and at the corners (so to speak) hung a variety of charms - tufts of wool, bones, teeth, claws, &c. The area was divided into several spaces, often into three, one for the celestial gods, one for the terrestrial and one for man.
Calvin at first declined, alleging as an excuse his need of securing more time for personal improvement, but ultimately, believing that he was divinely called to this task and that "God had stretched forth His hand upon me from on high to arrest me," he consented to remain at Geneva.
Wherever a barbarian hand offered wrong to any city of the Hellenic sisterhood, it was the arm of Athens which should first be stretched forth in the holy strength of Apollo the Averter.
Suess, which in Permian and Triassic times stretched across the European area from west to east.
Each consists in essence of a tightly stretched membrane or drum which is thrown into a state of rapid vibration by a powerful muscle attached to its inner surface and passing thence downwards to the floor of the thoracic cavity.
The thread is now stretched taut by a pencil, and the pencil moved; the curve traced out is the desired ellipse.
She relieved the distressed in far-off lands as well as at home, her helping hand being stretched out to the Dyaks of Borneo and the aborigines of Australia.
It formerly included the whole of northern Borneo and southern Palawan, and stretched down the west coast as far as Sambas.
We have a very special white stretched limousine with an additional, extra wide bridal door.
The cotton was cleaned and opened and then fed into the machine where the tangled mess was stretched and straightened.
Mesenchymal fibers in the early palatine processes each side of the tongue become stretched dorsoventrally to form straight, horizontal palatine processes.
No, it's the female resting just above the sea bed, her huge pectoral fins stretched out on either side!
Milliseconds drifted like slow-motion leaves tumbling from an autumnal tree, as tho time had been stretched, elasticised and rendered most pliable.
The rabbit hutch should be wide enough to allow you rabbit hutch should be wide enough to allow you rabbit to lie with its legs stretched out at the back.
Two spider webs are stretched across the forks, one (t) being cemented in a fine groove cut in the inner fork k, the other (s) in a similar groove cut in the outer fork 1.
A wire st is stretched across the centre of the field, perpendicular to the parallel wires.
A wire or fibre carrying the aluminium siphon cradle is stretched across this bridge piece, and on it is also mounted the small electromagnet, forming part of the " vibrator " arrangement with its hinged armature, to which one end of the stretched wire carrying the siphon is fastened.
In England "presentation at court" is the privilege of no particular class as such; and the wives of ministers of the class in strictness takes in only the peers personally; at the outside it cannot be stretched beyond those of their children and grandchildren who bear the courtesy titles of lord and lady.
During this period the mark of Meissen lay on both banks of the Elbe, and stretched from Bohemia to the duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, embracing an area of about 3000 sq.
The familiar illustration of Lamarck's hypothesis is that of the giraffe, whose long neck might, he suggested, have been acquired by the efforts of a primitively short-necked race of herbivores who stretched their necks to reach the foliage of trees in a land where grass was deficient, the effort producing a distinct elongation in the neck of each generation, which was then transmitted to the next.
The seed is now set; usually it is thoroughly mixed with a relatively large quantity of fine ashes, sand or meal, to facilitate thin and even sowing, and the surface of the bed is afterwards lightly brushed over with a broom; it is very important to avoid burying the seed at all deeply; a light covering of cloth or muslin, raised on short sticks, is often stretched over the bed.
According to Bede, Æthelberht's supremacy in 597 stretched over all the English kingdoms as far as the Humber.
Paper, parchment, or any other thin membrane stretched over a square, circular, &c., frame, when in the vicinity of a sufficiently powerful vibrating body, will, through the medium of the air, be itself made to vibrate in unison, and, by using sand, as in previous instances, the nodal lines will be depicted to the eye, and seen to vary in form, number and position with the tension of the plate and the pitch of the originating sound.
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind--I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.
The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was some painted cardboard representing trees, and at the back was a cloth stretched over boards.
Rhyn stretched to tap fists with him, and the portal information lit up his thoughts.
The Immortal rubbed the injection spot with a grimace, stretched, and climbed inside the ring in the lowermost basement in the castle.
Tables and pillows stretched as far as she could see to create a massive circle she assumed was large enough to seat the crowd.
Kiera roused herself, climbed to her feet, and stretched before the prisoner snagged her arm once more and began the quick pace again.
She stretched again before settling into an awkward stance across from him.
She rose after a few minutes and stretched.
When the quiet stretched uncomfortably long, she spoke again.
In spite of the lateness of the hour, he turned and stretched the stiffness from his limbs.
They're certainly different, Cynthia said as she stretched back on the sofa.
Fred stood up and stretched.
Once on the dance floor, he stretched his long fingers across the small of her back and took her hand.
She hadn't noticed Jackson yet, so stretched her front paws out and let out a proud howl.
She glanced at the clock and stretched.
Once back in human form, she stretched then groaned.
When she finally woke, she stretched then turned to him.
He leered at Elisabeth, arched his eyebrows with a lascivious grin, then stretched with great exaggeration.
She stretched to capacity and gripped the edge of the bowl.
He laced fingers behind his head and stretched his back, glancing around at the herd as he spoke.
The kid lay on its side, legs stretched out.
She stretched as far as she could and laced her fingers behind his neck, pulling his mouth down to hers again.
She stretched out on her stomach and absently poked a piece of straw into her mouth.
Alex tossed the book aside and stretched out beside her, following her gaze through the door.
They worked over Brutus for the better part of an hour and finally Alex leaned back and stretched.
Brady's arm of the militia, the Appalachia Branch, stretched from northern Georgia up through Virginia and was one of the largest in the PMF, the only thing good to come of the East-West Civil War.
The major cities in the East hit by nukes were marked in red with concentric circles that faded to orange, yellow, and finally green as they stretched west.
Brady stretched a muscular arm across the table beside him to tug the box out of his other uniform.
Instead, she stretched for the laser gun, grasping it.
She stretched with a grimace.
Lana stretched onto her stomach, watching them from the safety of the tree.
Her fingers grazed the cold metal, and she stretched towards it.
Jack stretched out on the floor beside the bed.
Jack climbed onto her bed and stretched out.
Corridors punctuated by lantern stretched in each direction off the room.
Dan dropped beside her, and the two lifted Brady's body from her lap and stretched him out.
Brady stretched his body.
The branch obliged him and passed him upwards to another, which stretched him as far up as it could reach. Then dropped him. Toby yelped as he fell. Another branch caught him and lifted him upwards again.
Unable to sleep without knowing the truth, Toby huddled beneath the jungle leaves and stretched his senses until he found Katie. He couldn't put her in more danger, if there was something wrong with Ully. She was close enough for him to find when he needed to. If he kept some distance between him and Katie, he could figure out what was wrong with Ully without endangering her more.
Death didn't come. Darkness fell, and Rhyn waited. He paced and stretched, imagining there would be some kind of a struggle. At long last, he forced himself to admit she wasn't coming. No one could've overlooked the blow he dealt her underworld. The trees all around them had died off with a tear forming in the earth that led in the direction of the palace.
He chuckled as she stretched out beside him.
Dean rose and stretched.
At least somebody else would get the distasteful task of telling a wailing Mrs. Wassermann one of her bouncing baby boys was stretched out on a marble slab in Norfolk, Virginia.
The silence that followed stretched far longer than Dean would have liked.
While Dean stretched his muscles and alternated between bites of peanut butter sandwich and a banana, Fred perused the rest of the master lists.
Their unplanned, unannounced engagement had stretched on indistinctly until Carmen began to silently question her lack of enthusiasm.
She rolled over and stretched out.
She stretched out on the cot, lying on her stomach.
He sat his glass on the window sill and stretched out his legs.
When his arms surrounded her, she stretched up and kissed his lips.
She was standing with her long legs stretched out, sniffing at a rabbit.
He stretched his legs out and slid them off the window seat.
Carmen stretched out her legs and sighed.
He trotted down the stairs from his palace to the apple orchard that stretched from his home to the imperial city beyond.
It stretched for miles, littered with stars brighter than any he'd ever seen.
The moment stretched on until it felt awkward even to her.
Darian was stretched out in the space beside her, hands beneath his head.
The orchards stretched from the palace to the city and had been open to the public for immortals all over to visit and enjoy.
The silence stretched between them at the stalemate.
Jenn paced and stretched, edgy.
Tendrils of coldness stretched from its home within her chest, testing her strength before subsiding into stillness once more.
Its coldness stretched outward from her chest, testing her resolve to keep it contained.
A strained silence stretched between them.
When she sat back with a belly stretched to its limit, the scent and food disappeared.
The stronger demon stretched within him to test its bonds while the other demon cowered.
The knit pants hugged her figure, but they were comfortable and stretched when she did.
Rob dismounted slowly and stretched.
Refusing to give up, she stretched until her fingers closed over the phone.
Alex leaned sideways and stretched a hand out to Sam, It's nice to meet you, Sam.
She stretched as far as she could.
She stretched up and pressed her lips to his.
The narrow state highway stretched like a black ribbon through the forested hills.
She shuddered involuntarily as it slowly uncoiled, stretched across the porch and eventually disappeared off the edge into the tall grass.
Before she could fully comprehend the action, he casually straightened and stretched.
She went to the bedroom and stretched out on the bedroll.
The sun was directly overhead when the twine was stretched as far as she could go.
She lifted the hair off the back of her neck and stretched.
She stood and stretched.
Xander left his bedroom, irritated, and stretched his senses.
Xander stretched his senses to seek out any other minds in the condo.
The ground floor consisted of formal dining and living areas, to include a hearth whose chimney stretched all the way to the top of the condo, two stories up.
She opened it and stretched upward on tiptoes to pull down a set of nestled, glass bowls.
She stopped, stretched and bent over, her bikini top straining to contain her large breasts.
The moment stretched on as the others worked on the camera and tripod.
Xander stretched to grab the keys on his coffee table and tossed them to her.
Swallowing a cry of pain, she pushed herself up and stretched out her arms above her head, expecting the feel of a second set of wooden doors, if she really was in a cellar.
An endless vista stretched before me, and I panted to start upon my way.
In particular the remarkable frontier lines which bounded the Roman provinces of Upper (southern) Germany and Raetia, and which at their greatest development stretched from near Bonn on the Rhine to near Regensburg on the Danube, are often called the Limes Germanicus.
A little south of Samarra are found remains of the Median Wall, which stretched south-west towards the Euphrates near Sahlawych, marking the edge of the Babylonian alluvial plain.
He proposed to make the armature partake of the vibrations of the atmosphere either by converting it into a suitable vibrator or by controlling its vibrations by a stretched membrane of parchment armature had the form of a hinged lever one end, which pressed against the centre.
The kingdom of Italy, transmitted on his death by Charles the Great, and afterwards Confirmed to his grandson Lotbar by the peace of Verdun in 843, stretched from the Alps to Terracina.
She was the last heiress of the great house of Canossa, whose fiefs stretched from Mantua across Lombardy, passed the Apennines, included the Tuscan plains, and embraced a portion of the duchy of Spoleto.
In the past John had evidently stretched his authority and seized lands over which others had really the right of wardship.
During the process the thin walls are stretched and the turns of the spiral become pulled apart without rupturing the wall of the tracheid or vessel, If the pitted type of tracheal element were similarly stretched its continuously thickened walls would resist the stretching and eventually break.
In the latter event the cells of the primary rays are either merely stretched radially, or they divide to keep pace with the growth of the bundles.
The posterior patagium, the fold between trunk and inner surface of the upper arm, is stretched by the metapatagialis muscle, which is composed of slips from the serratus, superficialis, latissimus dorsi and the expansor secundariorum muscles.
The log-line, after being well soaked, stretched and marked with knots, is wound uniformly on the log-reel, to which its inner end is securely fastened.
It stretched from sea to sea and consisted of a wall and a rampart.
The workers in question remain within the nest, suspended by their feet, and serve as living honey-pots for the colony, becoming so distended by the supplies of honey poured into their mouths by their foraging comrades that their abdomens become sub-globular, the pale intersegmental membrane being tightly stretched between the widely-separated dark sclerites.
The shell-gland is destined in Limnaeus to become very rapidly stretched out, and to disappear.
This now stretched from Lubeck to the Pyrenees, from Brest to Rome; while another arm (only nominally severed from the empire by the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy) extended down the eastern shore of the Adriatic to Ragusa and Cattaro, threatening the Turkish empire with schemes of partition always imminent but never achieved.
The canals too were guarded by chains stretched across their mouths and by towers in some cases, as, for example, in the case of the Torresella Canal, which takes its name from these defence works.
To the web is attached a trap-line which when drawn taut holds the snare stretched and tight, and when relaxed loosens the whole structure so that the threads fall together.
It stretched westwards into the valley of the Irkut, and up the lower valleys of the Upper Angara and the Barguzin.
To the south of the Dead Sea stretched a tongue of land, reaching to Aila, at the head of the eastern arm of the Red Sea.
That empire had been founded by Jenghiz Khan in the first quarter of the century; it stretched from Peking on the east to the Euphrates and the Dnieper on the west.
They assembled together with glad faces and in white garments, and the proceedings were begun with prayers, in which they stood and stretched their eyes and hands to heaven.
Many ingenious devices for forming bars have been produced; but generally a strong frame is used, across which steel wires are stretched at distances equal to the size of the bars to be made, the blocks being first cut into slabs and then into bars.
Its territory is said to have stretched from the Tyne northwards, ultimately reaching the Forth, while its western frontier was gradually extended at the expense of the Welsh.
When the troops landed in England, half clothed and half shod, their leader's conduct of the campaign was at first blamed, but his reputation as a general rests solidly upon these facts, that when Napoleon in person, having nearly 300,000 men in Spain, had stretched forth his hand to seize Portugal and Andalusia, Moore with 30,000, forced him to withdraw it, and follow him to Corunna, escaping at the same time from his grasp. Certainly a notable achievement.
Thence his line stretched along the Pyrenees by the passes of Vera, Echallar, Maya and Roncesvalles, to Altobiscar; his immediate object now being to reduce the fortresses of San Sebastian and Pampeluna.
At daylight on the 7th of October 1813 he crossed the Bidassoa in seven columns, and attacked the entire French position, which stretched in two heavily entrenched lines from north 1 Duque da Victoria, often incorrectly duke of Vitoria.
Soult's army (about 79,000), in three entrenched lines, stretched from the sea in front of St Jean de Luz along commanding ground to Amotz and thence, behind the river, to Mont Mondarin near the Nive.
The technical value of caoutchouc chiefly depends on the extent to which it is capable of being stretched without breaking, and the extent to which it at once returns to its original dimensions.
The long straight lines of works which stretched to the plateau of the Michelsberg and formed the outworks of the main fortress on the left bank of the Danube were purchased in 1900 by the municipal authorities, in order to be levelled and laid out in streets for the extension of the town in this direction.
A network of military routes, constructed and kept in repair by the soldiers, led from Lambaesa in all directions, and stretched along the frontier as far as Leptis Magna, passing Theveste (Tebessa), Thenae and Tacape (Gabes).
Further, although iron lengthens in fields of moderate strength, it contracts in strong ones; and if the wire is stretched, contraction occurs with smaller magnetizing forces than if it is unstretched.
Bidwell 2 accordingly found upon trial that the Wiedemann twist of an iron wire vanished when the magnetizing force reached a certain high value, and was reversed when that value was exceeded; he also found that the vanishing point was reached with lower values of the magnetizing force when the wire was stretched by a weight.
In contrast with the arid plateau of Mesopotamia, stretched the rich alluvial plain of Chaldaea, formed by the deposits of the two great rivers by which it was enclosed.
Samas-sum-yukin became more Babylonian than his subjects; the viceroy claimed to be the successor of the monarchs whose empire had once stretched to the Mediterranean; even the Sumerian language was revived as the official tongue, and a revolt broke out which shook the Assyrian empire to its foundations.
Through Phrygia and Lydia influences of this same Cappadocian civilization passed towards the west; and indeed, before the Greek colonization of Asia Minor, a loosely knit Hatti empire may have stretched even to the Aegean.
In the, 5th century, when it attained its greatest extent, it included, besides Armagnac, the neighbouring territories of Fezensac, Fezensaguet, Pardiac, Pays de Gaure, Riviere Basse, Eauzan and Lomagne, and stretched from the Garonne to the Adour.
At one end of it paper was stretched, and at the other a convex lens was fitted in a hole, the image being viewed through an aperture at the top of the box.
Its territory stretched as far as Hostilia on the Padus (Po), 30 m.
Naumann has concluded that formerly TokyO Bay stretched further over the whole level country of Shimosa and Hitachi and northwards as far as the plain of KwantO extends; that the mountain country of Kasusa-Awa emerged from it an island, and that a current ran in a north-westerly direction between this island and the northern mountain margin of the present plain toward the north-east into the open ocean.
The hinder portion of the body being drawn of ter, some part of it (c) finds another support on the rough ground or a projection; and, the anterior bends being stretched in a straight line, the front part of the body is propelled (from a to d) in consequence.
The folds can be stretched out, so that the skin is capable of a great degree of distension.
Round about the city on all sides were similar opportunities for close approach; even the villages stretched out long irregular streets towards the city gates.
The wide spaces of the Pacific lay behind him, he had fought a famous battle, but the southern waters of the world lay before him, behind loomed the Atlantic, and he knew that Britain's arm stretched far.
Thus the emperor's dominions now stretched from the Eider to the Ebro, and from the Atlantic to the Elbe, the Saale and the Raab, and they also included the greater part of Italy; while even beyond these bounds he exercised an acknowledged but shadowy authority.
By means of a piece of stretched rubber tubing, this crucible is supported in the mouth of an ordinary funnel which is connected with an exhausting apparatus; and water holding in suspension fine scrapings of asbestos, purified by boiling with strong hydrochloric acid and washing with water, is run through it, so that the perforated bottom is covered with a layer of felted asbestos.
A crude method consists of straining the liquid through cotton or other cloth, either stretched on wooden frames or formed into long narrow bags ("bag-filters").
According to Bede, Æthelberht's supremacy in 597 stretched over all the English kingdoms as far as the Humber.
Clinton met with little difficulty from the principal American defences of the Highlands, consisting of Forts Montgomery and Clinton on the western bank, together with a huge chain and boom stretched across the river to a precipitous mountain (Anthony's Nose) on the opposite bank, and ascended as far as Esopus (now Kingston) which he burned, but he was too late to aid Burgoyne.
The circuit was continued to the gun which served as a source, and stretched across its muzzle.
Scott (Comptes rendus, 1861, 53, p. 108) any sound whatever may be made to record its trace on the paper by means of a large parabolic cavity resembling a speaking-trumpet, which is freely open at the wider extremity, but is closed at the other end by a thin stretched membrane.
The nature of these conditions will be best realized by considering the case of a stretched string.
We shall first investigate the velocity with which a disturbance travels along a string of mass m per unit length when it is stretched with a constant tension T, the same at all points.
If the wire is stretched across a room and stroked in the middle with a damp cloth the fundamental is easily obtained, and the first harmonic can be brought out by stroking it at a quarter the length from one end.
Generally, in addition, wire cables are stretched across the span, from which lifting tackle is suspended.
In simplest form it consists of a long, straight, fine, uniform wire stretched over a divided scale.
In 1764 Leonhard Euler employed the functions of both zero and integral orders in an analysis into the vibrations of a stretched membrane; an investigation which has been considerably developed by Lord Rayleigh, who has also shown (1878) that Bessel's functions are particular cases of Laplace's functions.
The word is particularly used of the cord of a bow, and of the stretched cords of gut and wire upon a musical instrument, the vibration of which.
Caelus is sometimes associated with Terra, represented in plastic art as an old, bearded man holding a robe stretched out over his head in the form of an arch.
In that known as the Cardew voltmeter, a fine platinum-silver wire, having a resistance of about 300 ohms, is stretched in a tube or upon a frame contained in a tube.
In 1861 Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace, turning somersaults on stilts on a rope stretched across the central transept, 170 ft.
Above, there is the Fallopian tube, already described; below and in front is the round ligament; behind, the ovary projects backward, and just above this, when the broad ligament is stretched out as in fig.
Wellington now pressed for the total evacuation of France, pointing out that popular irritation had grown to such a pitch that, if the occupation were to be prolonged, he must concentrate the army between the Scheldt and the Meuse, as the forces, stretched in a thin line across France, were no longer safe in the event of a popular rising.
The larvae are killed and hardened by steeping some hours in strong acetic acid; the silk glands are then separated from the bodies, and the vis cous fluid drawn out to the condition of a fine uniform line, which is stretched between pins at the extremity of a board.
When running it makes wide strides and carries the body in an oblique position, with the neck stretched to its full extent and inclined forwards.
At the beginning of our era the Teutonic peoples stretched from the Rhine to the Vistula.
At the Jacobins at Paris, a cloister lay to the north of the long narrow church of two parallel aisles, while the refectory - a room of immense length, quite detached from the cloister - stretched across the area before the west front of the church.
The patient is then seized with violent convulsions of a tetanic character; the arms are stretched out, respiration impeded, the muscles are rigid, the body is thrown into opisthotonos, i.e.
Considere's ex periments have shown that concrete when reinforced is capable of being stretched, without fracture, about twenty times as much as plain concrete.
In the Matrai system thin wires are used instead of rods, and are securely fastened to rolled steel joists, which form the beams on which the slabs rest; moreover, the wires instead of being stretched tight from side to side of the slab are allowed to sag as much as the thickness of the concrete will allow.
But this excess of their contraction is resisted by the almost incompressible inner layers so that the outer layers are prevented from contracting as much as they naturally would if unopposed, and they are thereby virtually stretched.
After being purchased at the auction sales they are washed, then stretched upon a hoop, when all blubber and unnecessary flesh is removed, and the pelt is reduced to an equal thickness, but not so thin as it is finally rendered.
In the case of an appeal from a sentence given in the king's bench, he advised the victorious, but guilty, party to bring an action of praemunire against all those who had been concerned in the appeal, and his authority was stretched to the utmost to obtain the verdict he desired.
By the middle of the 4th century the Goths had become the dominant power in eastern Germany, and their King Hermanaric held a supremacy which seenis to have stretched from the Black Sea to Holstein.
In the northeast, dwelling between the Rhine and the Elbe, were the Saxons (q.v.), to the east and south of whom stretched the extensive kingdom of Thuringia (q.v.).
The Phoenician possessions in Sicily now stretched across the island from Himera to Selinus.
The Normans held all Sicily as the centre of a dominion which stretched far beyond it.
Egypt normally included the whole of the Nile valley from the First Cataract to the sea; pure Egyptians, however, formed the population of Lower Nubia above the Cataract in prehistori.c times; at some periods also the land was divided into separate kingdoms, while at others Egypt stretched southward into Nubia, and it generally claimed the neighboring Libyan deserts and oases on the west and the Arabian deserts on the east to the shore of the Red Sea, with Sinai and the Mediterranean coast as far as Rhinocorura (El Arish).
For dressing flat surfaces three wooden pegs (102) of equal length were used; a string was stretched between the tops of two, and the third peg was set on the point to be tested and tried against the string.
The " kingdom " stretched as far as Kolding and Skedborg, where the " duchy " began; and this duchy since its amalgamation with Holstein by means of a common Landtag, and especially since the union of the dual duchy with the kingdom on almost equal terms in 1533, was, in most respects, a semi-independent state.
Payer reported that from Cape Fligely land (Rudolf Land) stretched north-east to a cape (Cape Sherard Osborn), and mountain ranges were visible to the north, indicating lands beyond the 83rd parallel, to which the names King Oscar Land and Petermann Land were given.
But in the struggle for existence it chanced that the early English invaders secured a kingdom, Bernicia, which stretched from the Humber into Lothian, or farther north, as the fortune of battle might at various times determine; and thus, from the centre to the south-east of what is now Scotland, the people had come to be anglicized in speech before the Norman Conquest, though Gaelic survived much later in Galloway.
In early and middle Tertiary times, when the Indian peninsula was an island, and the sea which stretched into Europe washed the base of the Himalayan hills, Sokotra was in great part submerged and the great mass of limestone was deposited; but its higher peaks were still above water, and formed an island, peopled mainly by African species - the plants being the fragmentary remains of the old African flora - but with an admixture of eastern and other Asian forms. Thereafter it gradually rose, undergoing violent volcanic disturbance."
It is now very generally believed that in Jurassic and Cretaceous times a great land-mass stretched from South Africa through Madagascar to India, and that the Cretaceous deposits of Cutch, &c., were laid down upon its northern shore, and those of Pondicherry and Trichinopoly upon its southern shore.
Its shrines and monasteries stretched in a continuous line from the Caspian to the Pacific, and still extend from the confines of the Russian empire to the equatorial archipelago.
It appears that in the 4th century three Pallava chiefs were established at Kanchi, Vengi and Palakkada, the latter two being subordinate to the first, and that Pallava rule extended from the Godavari on the north to the Southern Vellaru river on the south, and stretched across Mysore from sea to sea.
It stretched towards Oates Land sighted by the " Terra Nova " of Scott's expedition.
In The Case Of Water Or Other Liquids It Is Necessary To Employ A Platinum Wire Stretched Along The Tube As Heating Conductor.
His empire stretched from the Caspian to the Persian Sea, and in the west to the eastern frontier of Syria.
At nightfall Bautzen and Burk were in possession of the French, and the allied line now stretched from Jenkwitz northward to Pliskowitz, Blucher and Barclay maintaining their original positions at Pliskowitz and Gleina.
Thrice the walls which protected the town were moved westwards, about 1250, in 1346 and in 1622, though even at the last-named date the town only stretched a little way to the west of (or beyond) the present railway station.
Suppose, for example, that we have a light string stretched over a smooth curve; and let Rs denote the normal pressure (outwards from the centre of curvature) on bs.
In the case of a string stretched over a smooth surface, but in other respects free from extraneous force, the tensions at the ends of a small element s must be balanced by the normal reaction of the surface.
It stretched from the Palatine across the low ground, afterwards occupied by the Colosseum, to the Esquiline.
The square piece of aluminium is pivoted round a horizontal stretched wire.
They stretched far into the midst of the nomadic tribes.
Its northern shores were washed by the Sea of Tethys, which, at least in Jurassic and Cretaceous times, stretched across the Old World from west to east, and in this sea were laid down the marine deposits of the Himalaya.
In like manner we may by experiment ascertain the general fact that the surface of a liquid is in a state of tension similar to that of a membrane stretched equally in all directions, and prove that this tension depends only on the nature and temperature of the liquid and not on its form, and from this as a secondary physical principle we may deduce all the phenomena of capillary action.
The tension of the sheet of india-rubber, however, depends on the extent to which it is stretched, and may be different in different directions, whereas the tension of the surface of a liquid remains the same however much the film is extended, and the tension at any point is the same in all directions.
In this instance it stretched from the Danube to the sea.
Here a cable, stretched across the river, catches all the timber, which is then made up into rafts and floated down to Kado, near Moulmein, where the revenue is collected.
Beneath the tail is a rudder for directing the course of the machine to the right or to the left; and to facilitate the steering a sail is stretched between two masts which rise from the car.
High overhead, like a gigantic awning, was the slightly concavo-convex main aeroplane, tilted towards the front at an imperceptible angle, and stretched taut.
This was but one link in a chain of devout peregrination which stretched from China to India, and which included every intervening Buddhist centre of note which existed in the early centuries of our era.
On the northern shores of this strait stretched the feudal state ruled over by Prince Choshu, who refused to recognize the clause opening the strait, and erected batteries on the shore, from which he opened fire on all ships which attempted to force the passage.
He was warned that if he persisted in disobeying the law he would be liable to banishment, and that if he were found in England after a certain time his neck would be stretched.
Their territory stretched up into the lower slopes of the mountains, and was mostly in what is now Nepal, but it included territory now on the British side of the frontier.
The coupling is effected by firmly clamping the ends of the beams upon the top and bottom respectively of a loop of watch - spring, which is tightly stretched round the casting carrying the pan, as is shown in the end view in fig.
At their middles the beams are similarly clamped upon the top and bottom of a loop of watch-spring which is tightly stretched round a casting which is bolted upon the bed-plate.
The central layer is usually thick and marked by lines of growth; but in Glossograptus and Lasiograptus it is thinned down to a fine membrane stretched upon a skeleton framework of lists and fibres,.
On the death of Asoka in 231 B.C. the empire of the Mauryas broke up, and their heritage in the west fell to the Andhra dynasty of the Satavahanas of Paithan on the Godavari, a Dravidian family whose dominion by 200 B.C. stretched across the peninsula from the deltas of the Godavari and Kistna to Nasik and the Western Ghats.
On a board is stretched a uniform metallic wire a b, generally of platinum silver.
John II.'s brother, Otto IV., who became elector in 1281, had passed his early years in struggles with the archbishop of Magdeburg, whose lands stretched like a wedge into the heart of Brandenburg.
He laced his fingers behind his neck and stretched in a way that made his upper torso ripple with muscular activity.
She stretched out on the rock, its warmth penetrating her shirt and further relaxing her muscles.
Tired but more at peace with the strange world, she stretched out on the couch to watch TV.
He wore only jeans and a dark T-shirt that stretched across his chest in all the right places and clung to bulging biceps.
The friendship between them stretched thousands of years, to just before the Schism.
Dean's patience with bureaucracy was thin during the best of times, but dealing with various branches of social services over the past winter stretched and frazzled his tolerance to the limit.
Dean witnessed none of it as he surged upward, climbing above all but the highest ridges as the narrow track stretched toward the timberline.
It's kind of like… Ully looked around and stretched for the pen on the table.
Cliffs stretched as far as she could see in either direction with uneven stone and shale between her and the rest of the island.
Whenever possible, he stretched his lithe body out like a panther to soak up the warmth his own blood could not provide.
Jack stretched out on the floor, content after his dinner, while she stared at the screen of her micro.
She rolled her eyes at the vague answer then stretched up on her tiptoes to wrap the chain around his neck.
These works comprise stretched raw canvas soaked with motor oil which causes the support to slowly decay.
Also on display will be a variety of vehicles to cater for every taste, from vintage car to stretched limo.
The team was stretched trying to manage a caseload of over 40 patients each.
The car benefits from an extremely lightweight chassis, which incorporates an aluminum shell ' stretched ' over a lattice frame.
Everton could have pulled back a mere consolation via the penalty spot, however, Tom Heaton stretched to save Nick Chadwick's attempt.
He adds a remarkable appearance to a throng of 500 which even the gospel writers must have found stretched credulity too far.
Viduka's delightful left-footed curler then stretched the Leeds tally to five within nine minutes of the restart.
From this, the vivisectors made the astounding discovery that the rabbits ' motion decreased the further the limb was stretched.
Then partially fold the stretched dough back over the main section.
The game became quite stretched as players tired and Southwick although 2 up started to look edgy.
Ur-Nammu founded the empire, which stretched into Iran.
As a result the sound emulation which is pretty good actually sounds stretched and of a poor quality.
The 20th century screen is a more sophisticated form of this web, made of finely woven fabric stretched over a frame.
At the end of a half in which Leeds had only been stretched for period of 2 minutes, things got rather fraught.
You should contact your GP immediately to arrange for you to return to hospital to have the gullet stretched again.
As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead.
Cat and Mouse Everyone should stand in a circle holding the chute stretched out at about waist height.
Thirteen museums stretched along either bank pay homage to nearly every section of the arts.
A1 Limousines vehicles range from stretched hummers, which seat 20 people, through to Bentleys and a chauffeur driven fire engine.
Some strains, however, such as those from Thailand, tend to have longer internodes and appear airy and stretched.
This left two ferries covering the North Isles, a situation that stretched Orkney Ferries resources and left many islanders unhappy with the service.
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The completion of the clubhouse was not without difficulty, that stretched the sinews of the club almost to breaking point at one stage.
When using frames that support the anterior superior iliac spines, the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh may be compressed and stretched.
In a minor sprain some of the fibers within the ligament are stretched.
Clear stretched sprue formed the aerial from the fin to the post at the rear of the cockpit.
With this technique, a metallic bridge on an insulating substrate is carefully stretched by mechanical bending.
Her blouse was white, stretched taut over her full figure.
Behind the factory on the hill you can see the long strips of finished flannel stretched out to dry on frames called tenters.
Our armed forces are stretched rather thin, and there is a limit to how many of these deployments we can sustain.
A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.
The floor is a wire trampoline stretched between the walls with an acoustically transparent catch net below.
I look out and see yards upon yards of brown tweed stretched out on a rack in the field.
They stitched on linen, velvet, or silk twill backed by linen, with the fabric stretched across a wooden frame.
These often stretched almost unbroken from one village to the next.
Innocent's letters, however, not only reveal that superior wisdom which can take into account practical needs and relax severity of principle at the right moment, as well as that spirit of tolerance and equity which is opposed to the excess of zeal and intellectual narrowness of subordinates, but they also prove that, in the internal government of the Church, he was bent on gathering into his hands all the motive threads, and that he stretched the absolutist tradition to its furthest limits, intervening in the most trifling acts in the lives of the clergy, and regarding it as an obligation of his office to act and think for all.
When flying, flamingos present a striking and beautiful sight, with legs and neck stretched out straight, looking like white and rosy or scarlet crosses with black arms. Not less fascinating is a flock of these sociable birds when at rest, standing on one or both legs, with their long necks twisted or coiled upon the body in any conceivable position.
It had canvas stretched all over it.
It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
The rabbit hutch should be wide enough to allow you rabbit to lie with its legs stretched out at the back.
The bitmap is stretched or shrunk to fit the window.
It was working under Tim that I learned how radio could tell stories in a way that stretched the imagination.
Under high wind suction loads, some underlay materials can be stretched sufficiently to make them flap.
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
The latest RAV4 is bigger than ever â it might even arrive in seven-seater stretched wheelbase guise eventually.
The roofs of woodie wagons were usual made of stretched canvas that was treated with a water proofing dressing.
He stretched experimentally and bit back the yelp that tried to escape his mouth.
Personalized Artwork-Order a stretched canvas painting with baby's name painted in the center.
The end result is that the smooth muscle tissue of the heart is stretched dangerously thin.
Stood end to end, these would make a column that stretched to the moon and back.
This can result in a soft, tufted design or the leather can be stretched over a frame for a more tailored look.
If your budget is stretched, then this is a perfect Do-It-Yourself project.
From there, the lamp can be stretched and hooked a second time directly above the area you need it to be.
Beneath the stretched fabric, paper or plastic of your lampshade is wire frame holding the covering taut.
This highly attractive wood grows in the Rocky Mountains, which stretched all the way from Canada to Mexico.
In addition, you might consider angling your camera so that only certain female body parts, such as her legs, hips or torso are snapped while she's draped over a tree or stretched out on a sandy beach.
Eaten in the early afternoon, usually between 1-4, lunch is a multiple course meal stretched over a couple of hours.
No matter what you decide to wear them with, they can be slouchy or stretched out, depending on whether you want them to look like socks or tights.
She also starred as a rather saucy, updated version of Princess Jasmine in a pantomime version of Alladin and stretched her boundaries by appearing in the children's miniseries, Wavelength.
His entire face appeared to be stretched and unfortunately the look wasn't good.
If you have more than one child in your family, you may find your clothing budget stretched to its limit.
While some ships are remodeled and "stretched" by adding central sections to existing hulls, the most common way to create larger ships is to introduce a new bigger class of vessels.
If your dog is full grown, then measure him standing, and fully stretched out on the ground.
Cots for dogs are typically constructed from some sort of material stretched across a framework on raised legs.
Once you have stretched them all, you need to retune again.
The strings are stretched across the fretboard.
Millefiore images are created by layering glass rods to form a mosaic image of flowers as well as geometric shapes that are then heated and stretched in much the same way as hard candy is made.
This style of charm was initially popular in Italy, being worn by many celebrities, before the popularity stretched to the rest of Europe and the world.
Many people wonder about this as they try to decide what to buy with an already stretched budget.
It can be difficult for new parents to fit these things into a budget that has all ready been stretched by all of the expenses of a new baby.
Many consumers find that they must choose between their organic convictions and their stretched budgets.
Being plus size does not mean you are stuck purchasing low-quality clothing that is destined to look sloppy and be stretched out of shape.
Choosing the right size is essential; since fishnet is such a delicate material to begin with, its life span greatly depends on how often it is stretched.
People who are stretched for time find that taking a vacation but doing some volunteer work while relaxing can be a great thing.
The horse bit appears again, this time in metal and bamboo, and stretched across the bridge of wooden-heeled mules, kitten-heeled sandals, and classic courts.
Get your shoes stretched at the cobbler.
A popular format has the eagle swooping down, wings spread and talons stretched, ready to grasp its prey.
Lip stretching is practiced by many of these tribes, in some cases using the size of the stretched piercing as a status symbol or a sign of adulthood.
Place a long, thin Celtic knot stretched horizontally across the lower back, with the middle of the knot dipping toward the sternum for a delicately balanced design.
Stretched piercings have become more mainstream in recent years as they have been popularized by musicians and stars.
Stretched piercings can be considered an extreme form of body modification due to the permanent nature of the alteration.
Overworked muscles can be relaxed and stretched by doing the right yoga poses; for example, yoga poses for tight hamstrings are a great addition to a runner's exercise regime.
In the past, static stretches were often recommended, but some gyms have moved to a model where muscles are stretched and then contracted and stretched again.
Start standing upright with your arms at your sides, then jump a little as you move your feet to a wide stance while raising your arms in wide arcs so they're stretched above your head.
A muscle is actually weaker in its fully stretched position, so weakening a muscle prior to exercise or sport can compromise the integrity of the joints.
You will begin in the standard pushup position, with your arms stretched out directly below your shoulders.
Improperly stretched rotator cuff muscles can become stiff and prone to injuries.
Ligaments have little to no elasticity, so if they're stretched they won't just snap back into shape.
We all take the time to look good before we leave the house, but for some reason still choose our oldest T-shirt, stretched out sweats or tatty robe to throw on at home.
Often time new moms find themselves chasing after kids still wearing the same oversized, faded and stretched out pajamas that they wore when they were pregnant.
After you wear the lingerie a couple of times, it may not retain its shape very well and you will end up with a stretched out piece of leather lingerie that looks a couple of sizes too big for your body.
Even if you are extra-careful and wash your laundry on the gentle cycle, the straps can get stretched when tangled with other laundry.
After achieving a great deal of success in England, Hendrix's influence stretched to America, but The Jimi Hendrix Experience broke apart in 1969.
Lackey stretched the limits with her Heralds and Herald-Mages, with mere heralds having one or more talents such as telepathy or firestarting, and the herald-mages also being able to tap into the magical forces within the earth itself.
Cars and people flew as Mothra stretched her wings.
Whereas old-fashioned face lifts often result in an over-tightened, stretched profile, the mini lift simply makes patients look well rested.
Stretch marks occur when the skin is stretched beyond its expected capacity.
At that time, George "Rose" Barclay, who played for Lafayette College as a halfback, began using straps that stretched over the top of the head and had earpieces to protect the ears.
The sand stretched out before her, their tracks pointing to the escape route.
Carrying a chair from the kitchen, she stretched to dust the top shelf of one of the bookcases beside the fireplace.
She stretched her senses and pulled everything to her.
When her phone rang again, she stretched for it and found she couldn't move.
She stood up and stretched.
Mrs. Lincoln hopped down, stretched languidly, looked at Dawkins and hissed.
She stretched and pulled herself onto the bank, shaking hard with cold.
He stretched his neck and upper body and then drew his remaining dagger.
When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away the bald head.
Above the dirty, ill-lit streets, above the black roofs, stretched the dark starry sky.
It could be that the hinge is stretched out or perhaps a screw is loose or missing.If you determine that the hinge is stretched out then use a pair of pliers to carefully bend it back into place.
Designed to have an exceptional fit, the frames of the Hudson are stretched wide over the temples for a stylish look, but still protects against peripheral wind, snow and glare.
There are then two eyes above your pupil, and the smile is stretched across your eye underneath your pupil.
His antics, however, stretched his college experience out to much longer than it should have been.
But after an hour, the Calvario stretched and yawned, and finally decided to wake up.
Instead, the perineum can be massaged and gently stretched to prevent tearing as the baby's head crowns.
Brachial plexopathy occurs most often during birth, when an infant's neck and shoulders are stretched apart during passage through the birth canal.
A minor brachial plexus injury can be a stretched nerve that results in a short-circuit in a few of the nerve fibers, causing temporary paralysis.
An infant's shoulder becomes stuck on the mother's pelvic bone during birth; the infant's neck may be stretched and the brachial plexus injured as the physician pulls on the baby to free it before circulatory or respiratory stress occurs.
In many cases, these tests cannot detect the microscopic damage that occurs when fibers are stretched in a mild, diffuse injury.
When a person closes the hand to make a fist, a tendon known as the extensor tendon is stretched.
However, after surgery, increased pressure in the stretched abdomen can compromise the function of the organs inside.
In a scalp reduction surgery, part of the bald area is removed and the remaining, hair-bearing skin stretched to cover the spot.
Curly hair can be stretched straight in order to measure.
Curly hair can be stretched out to measure before cutting.
They are often diagnosed when the woman begins to have abdominal or pelvic pain from the stretched fallopian tube.
In the end, 500 city blocks were wiped off the map, most of which lied between the downtown financial district and stretched to the main thoroughfare of Van Ness Avenue.
They alternate between swimwear and play wear, becoming stretched, snagged and faded along the way.
When your one piece suit isn't stretched properly, the suit tends to wrinkle around the mid-section, adding inches where you want them the least.
Stretch Armstrong's claim to fame was that his arms and legs could be stretched out by the child to what appeared to be extraordinary lengths.
Even though Stretch was only 13" high, he could be stretched out to approximately four feet.
Try a shorter lace tunic worn over a colorful tank top stretched a few inches down below the hem of the other layer.
In 1955, the Red Cross was stretched with back-to-back hurricanes.
If you have been involved with a charity or nonprofit organization for any significant length of time, you know how stretched the dollar can be at times.
The painting doesn't have to be 2' by 2' on stretched canvas.
Today, those standards are the bare minimum criteria for judging diamond quality throughout the industry, and to continue to excel, the company has stretched beyond those four characteristics.
Other than the engagement ring, the cost might have stretched to a few roses but certainly would not break the bank.
With arms stretched out, not only is this a great backpack for the little ones, but it also serves as a cuddly, sweet-faced friend.
Reducing your expenses is typically the easiest way to go, but finding a way to generate a source of supplemental income may be preferable if you feel like your budget is already stretched to the limit.
When the household budget is stretched to the limit, many people wonder "How much money should I be saving?"
She stretched out on the couch beside him; resting her head on his chest and he draped the blanket across her shoulders, his arm falling loosely on her waist.
Several minutes stretched into ten or more with neither of us closing our eyes.
Darkyn waited for her in the circle that stretched about five meters across.
The skin of a woodchuck was freshly stretched upon the back of the house, a trophy of his last Waterloo; but no warm cap or mittens would he want more.
She was soon soaked by a light drizzle and stretched to keep her stiffening muscles warm.
He stretched out on his back on his bed.