STRETCHED in a Sentence

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For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRETCHED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stretch
 v.  draw out or extend a body or limbs to the full length or extent
 n.  an act of stretching one's limbs or body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  A mournful peace hung on the fields, as though they felt the relaxing grasp of the cold and stretched themselves in their long winter sleep.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  He sat down, drew his pipe from his pocket and stretched his feet to the glow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  The monotonous rows of soldiers' graves at Oakland Cemetery stretched longer every day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  He stretched out his long legs in their scarred high boots for them to admire.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Nerves which had been stretched tighter and tighter each day of the retreat began to reach the breaking point.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Lying in the pitiless sun, shoulder to shoulder, head to feet, were hundreds of wounded men, lining the tracks, the sidewalks, stretched out in endless rows under the car shed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  So she had unharnessed him and crawled, sodden with fatigue, into the back of the wagon and stretched her aching legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  A great stretch of ocean lay beneath them.
17  You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
18  Shallow Pools and Crevices Considerable variation in shore fauna can occur even in the same stretch of coast.
19  This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with walkers.
20  I'd like to stretch my mortgage payments out over a longer period if possible.
21  The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.
22  Unsettled weather will stretch from the middle Mississippi Valley to the southern Middle Atlantic States.
23  They've already undergone surgery to stretch their skin.
24  Copper is an extremely ductile material: you can stretch it into the thinnest of wires, bend it, even wind it into loops.
25  My habit is to just stare at a long stretch of river looking for any signs of fish movement.
26  For a fortnight he and his companion Dimitri Kieffer pulled their equipment over the eighty kilometre stretch of frozen water with the sounds of ice breaking just a few miles behind them.
27  A stretch of firm sands forms a primitive highway for the heavily-laden wagons to freight from the harbor to the town.
28  Obama and Romney embarked Saturday on the final stretch, making their closing arguments in the handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight race that is going down to the wire.
29  The doctor told me to avoid bending and stretching.
30  Sit on the floor, stretching your legs out in front of you.