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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:

Gourniá was a large city, stretching down to the coast where it had an important port.
Their former parade ground, the vast Champ de Mars, is now a green park stretching all the way to the Tour Eiffel.
No offense, some of my best friends are Angelenos (because they are comedy writers, and there is an unwritten law saying anyone who writes comedy has to live in a sprawling array of car phones and one-story buildings stretching hundreds of miles in every direction), and besides, any city that can come up with Being John Malkovich , which is, in addition to being a nice metaphor for Hillary Clinton's identity-shifting Senate bid (as well as, well, her whole existence), quite possibly the greatest movie ever made, deserves nothing but admiration.
But these potted wonders changed daily, stretching and budding and turning toward the sun.
Muslims believe that these revelations, given to the greatest and last of a chain of prophets stretching from Abraham through Jesus, complete God's message to humanity.