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Example sentences for: stretched

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Movie garb was automatically read as part of the tradition that stretched back to silent Hollywood days, with everything made specially for the stars and uniquely worn by them.
asks Connery, after Zeta-Jones has stretched herself languidly out on a plush four-poster.
The sensuality of "To Earthward" is acted out by its reaching, lingering, abrupt, or stretched sentences as they tease and cavort with rhyme and line ending.
Other European powers began to put pressure on the defending forces, and British naval power in the area was badly stretched.
The ambitions of Napoléon Bonaparte stretched as far as the Western Hemisphere, and an influx of French aristocrats buoyed French sentiments.