Synonym: distend, draw out, elongate, expand, extend, spread, strain. Antonym: shrink. Similar words: stretch out, retreat, stress, streak, street, stream, contretemps, distress. Meaning: [stretʃ] 
n. 1. a large and unbroken expanse or distance 2. the act of physically reaching or thrusting out 3. a straightaway section of a racetrack 4. exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent 5. extension to or beyond the ordinary limit 6. an unbroken period of time during which you do something 7. the capacity for being stretched. v. 1. occupy a large, elongated area 2. extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body 3. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length 4. become longer by being stretched and pulled 5. make long or longer by pulling and stretching 6. lie down comfortably 7. pull in opposite directions 8. extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly 9. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones 10. increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance 11. extend one's body or limbs. adj. 1. having an elongated seating area 2. easily stretched.
n. 1. a large and unbroken expanse or distance 2. the act of physically reaching or thrusting out 3. a straightaway section of a racetrack 4. exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent 5. extension to or beyond the ordinary limit 6. an unbroken period of time during which you do something 7. the capacity for being stretched. v. 1. occupy a large, elongated area 2. extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body 3. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length 4. become longer by being stretched and pulled 5. make long or longer by pulling and stretching 6. lie down comfortably 7. pull in opposite directions 8. extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly 9. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones 10. increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance 11. extend one's body or limbs. adj. 1. having an elongated seating area 2. easily stretched. 
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241. The speed limits on that stretch of road are a farce.
242. Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. Criss Jami 
243. It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.
244. Finally I let him stretch out on the carpeted floor beside my feet as Dad and I talked.
245. This time Laura did not elongate herself so much as stretch herself into a kind of thin phlegmy mess.
246. Solly's climb was to perplex and stretch the best climbers for decades.
247. These edges can be considered mutually exclusive interpretations of some stretch of the utterance defined by the z and x axis.
248. They soon stretch beyond any form of credibility as he jokes with his advisers.
249. The pants themselves were too tight and too short, exhibiting a generous stretch of hairy legs.
250. Shortly thereafter we enter a stretch of shallow pools and channels cut into the rock by a millennium of erosion.
251. Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity.
252. This stretch of coastline contains the outlets of no fewer than seven rivers.
253. The worker must straddle and stretch across the distances, often very large distances.
254. Riven was stiff all over, hardly able to stretch himself flat.
255. This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands built by the surf out of drifting sand.
256. Roach and big bream on the Grange stretch below A1 road bridge at Wetherby, also grayling.
257. The bucket has teeth the size of a man, and room to park three stretch limos.
258. Technical advances in fleece continue apace such as with the stretch version which gives improved insulation and greater mobility through a closer fit.
259. You must have the ability to turn at acute angles at speed and you must be able to stretch and bend.
260. However long she had been there, the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings.
261. His Honour Mark Dyer said the fish farm was well aware that that particular stretch of river was reserved for brown trout.
262. Finally he would stretch out, his breathing would become more regular and he would drift off.
263. The same summer ... I am looking down on the world, but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons.
264. Or tax incentives encourage companies to stretch out downsizing and keep more jobs at home?
265. This final stretch, a 4, 000-foot ascent over 13 winding miles, is by far the most daunting.sentencedict.com/stretch.html
266. Now push and stretch that arm just a little further and hold for 1 second.
267. Stretch up gently for 10 counts holding each count for 1 second.
268. But what began in May 1998 as a skirmish over a remote stretch of border exposed a deep reservoir of bitterness.
269. All around me, the bare walls expanded and converged into a relentless stretch of white.
270. I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.
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