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Example sentences for: stretching

How can you use “stretching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Grand Canal project, begun 2,400 years ago, created an inland waterway stretching 1,794 km (1,113 miles) from Beijing to Hangzhou.
The danger in all this, though, is overreaching, stretching a company beyond what it's really good at.
The Adriatic coast, of which Rimini is the chief resort, has wide sandy beaches, at some points stretching 300 m (1,000 ft) from the water’s edge back to the dunes.
For example, using circles we cannot expect to pick up an outbreak that is very long and narrow such as a one-block area on each side of Broadway, stretching from southern to northern Manhattan.
By the mid-17th century the Ottoman Empire had reached its greatest extent, stretching from Batumi at the eastern end of the Black Sea to Algeria, taking in Mesopotamia, Palestine, the shores of the Red Sea (including Mecca and Medina), Egypt, Anatolia, Greece, the Balkans, Hungary, Moldavia, the North African coast, the Crimea, and southern Ukraine.