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Sentence Examples Past ancient treasures that stretched away into the distance in adjoining rooms. The sun's light stretched across he sleepy town, causing a few roosters to crow. His reapplication for membership of the Party has stretched on for seven years. Dawn stretched out upon the sky, and the roosters proclaimed the new day across the country. The retriever was stretched out on the back seat, and she wanted to impress upon the dog that he must remain there. David turned to look angrily at her but she'd stretched herself across the bed, arms splayed and hair akimbo. The cell is then stretched and split into two halves on the framework of microtubules, each half containing a full complement of chromosomes. Unplanned expenses over the last few years for a new roof, replacement gutters, and new carpeting have stretched them to the limit. His hands are the same, long, clever fingers, five of them, with webbing stretched between and ending in wicked, slightly curved, claws. Since the claw flexor muscle in insects has no antagonist, claws and arolium are moved back by elastic recoil of stretched exocuticle. Robinson was moving right across his goalline but stretched back and clawed the ball away. She stretched out her left hand and bent the fingers at the second knuckle. Only I know how wounded my pride was when he stretched on the bed like a lazy cat and fell asleep. There they cleared the brush, wrangled with the authorities, stretched their credit and built a house. Queues of traffic stretched back for miles following the accident as the fire service extinguished the blaze and police removed the wrecked cars. Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars. A vast brown curtain, wrinkled and puckered and covered in fine brown hairs, was stretched across a wide opening. Gaughan stretched the lead to nine, a minute later and it seemed all over but Castlerea weren't finished. As I watched in amazement he leapt lithely from the couch, shook himself, stretched, and began to walk outside. She stretched then stood and left her room, sure that it was nearly time for rehearsal. Show More Sentences Latest figures show that industrial and service resources are being stretched to the full, restricting growth and hampering new investment. I took his mantle and spread it on the rough wood surface, and with some difficulty he stretched out upon it, face down. Behind stretched a rocky plateau, the one pale cafe au lait in colour, the other of deeply rusted iron. To our west, the great sheet of ice that stretched before us was almost too much to take in. Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back. Ferguson stretched his full length and yet managed to control his header superbly past Jussi Jaaskelainen. At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles. This is the latest in a series of injuries which have stretched the Lochcarron squad. Ropes stretched from one house to the next, from where hung newly washed laundry, some still dripping with rather murky water. Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, Mark rubbed his hand over his face and stretched his legs. When the two of them had left her to be in the room on her own, she stretched out on her bed like a lazy cat, then curled over onto her side. I saw a telephone sure enough, but smashed to pieces, the bare wire of its leads stretched across the room. He admits that his coping skills and personal resources were stretched beyond their limits and he lashed out in a temper outburst. Even her first marriage to Otieno, a Luo, stretched boundaries as she is a Kikuyu, famous rivals of Luos for political and cultural reasons. The paintings were arranged in order along a yellow band that stretched around the white walls of the gallery's three divided spaces. Bryce got to his feet and stretched, marched over to the window and latched the lock. Shutting my eyes, I stretched my hands above me, reaching for the rusty metal rings. It was dark and brooding and stretched away into the distance as far as Becki could see. Jessica stretched lazily while trying to convince her body that it was time to rise and shine. The idea is to create resistance between the hips and shoulders so there is a lot of tautness, like a stretched rubber band. Show More Sentences He stretched his long limbs, and pushed his white hair back behind his pointed ears. The rush on commodities stretched into the gold market, where prices touched 18-year highs. Threads of rose and gold stretched across the sky as navy faded into cobalt. Then we ventured out onto the frozen waters of Calriga Bay, where the ice stretched grey and wrinkled to a horizon of low, wooded islands. The consumers are stretched thin, and most of the companies are highly leveraged. Holding the vine in place, he gently stretched a wide rubber band over the pins as shown in the illustration. She leaned forward and Hope immediately lengthened her strides and stretched forward. Suddenly he was behind me, a length of white cord stretched tightly between his two hands. Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets. When the arm is abducted and externally rotated the sternocostal fibres are maximally stretched. He stretched his arms high above his head and began to walk to his bedroom. Sitting with my arm stretched up above my head is, and always has been, comfortable. It helps to repeat the inspection with your arms stretched above your head and again with your hand pressed firmly on your hip. He stretched his arms above his head and glanced at the clock on his bedside, it was eight o'clock. Before them stretched a long corridor, allowing only three people to walk abreast. But the traffic tailbacks and jams, which stretched right back into York, lasted well into the rush hour. Since it stretched along the length of the Yare bank, sections of the quayside were distinguished from each other by their own names. Long rows of empty boots stretched across the plaza at the south end of the park, each pair tagged with the name of a fallen soldier. For two miles the water stretched north, a flat sheet of grey in the morning sun. The Jedi are stretched to the limit trying to keep peace and order in the galaxy. Show More Sentences Even yesterday, when the roads were relatively quiet, stationary traffic stretched the length of Kingshill. The stern expression he wore did little to calm her already stretched nerves. The ropes are stretched tight around the corner posts, to allow for acrobatics from the actual ropes. While they come in many shapes and sizes, snowshoes tend to have a wooden frame with webbing stretched around it. But, until the plan is actioned, there is still some Monday stretched out behind and ahead of me. I shook my head in bewilderment, stood and stretched, then gathered up my pack. He wore some kind of big baggy silken shirt with long sleeves that almost stretched down to the tips of his fingers. To my left, in the corner of the bay itself was a large raft of floating scum which stretched out some five yards or so, towards the island. He stretched for a bit and then got up and jogged a five-mile round trip about the neighborhood. She stretched again and yawned, nearly jumping out of her skin when someone knocked on her door. The Allies grimly battled their way to the Gustav line, which stretched from Ortona on the Adriatic coast to Minturno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. His canvas panels are stretched at different levels on wheeled aluminum frames. Gill nets are not only stretched across the river but are also between rocky out crops where rapids exist in the river. But my favourite bit wasn't the statues, it was the arrow-straight footpath that stretched between them. They are made of hollowed out tree trunks with cowskin stretched on either end and tied with rawhide strips. To our north, the vast featureless Kazakh steppes, an area the size of Western Europe, stretched away seemingly to infinity. Roll upon roll of razor wire stretched for miles in an unbroken barrier that seemed to reach into eternity. The girl stretched before reaching forward and placing the silver colored portable phone on the coffee table next to the mail. He reached his hand out to me and stretched his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him. Unwittingly she slumped in the chair, her legs stretched out, and reached her hands out towards the fire for a bit of warmth. Show More Sentences After one particularly long submersion, Blair spotted a log stretched out across the river just within reach of his outstretched hands. When a tape is stretched, it may reduce head-to-tape contact, increasing read-write errors and dramatically reducing data throughput. Whenever she was near, my skin tingled in the strangest way and my mouth stretched widthways into the widest smile. More than 40,000 regular police from a force already stretched by the protests have been allocated to mind the event. Try to avoid exercises that increase the strength of short, strong muscles and those that put an undue load on already stretched muscles, Drake says. I stretched luxuriously under the rather expensive Egyptian cotton sheets. The fabric is stretched over the frame and tacked or stapled into place. Putting them last ensures that I'm thoroughly warmed up and stretched out and will be limber enough to work my abs through a full range of motion with intensity and good form. Building regulations were stretched to the very limit, and the last thing considered was environmental impact and the lives of the people who would occupy these abominations. In other words, the air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits. The family had grown up dirt-poor, sharecropping the 20,000 acres of cotton that stretched out below Sand Mountain. Vaughn sat back in his chair and stretched his arms above his head. The cramping muscle should be carefully stretched and massaged to relieve pain. The circles of periodicity are really spirals, stretched out along the arrow of time that flies only in one direction, and sooner or later brings down every creature. The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers. When deep brown eyes finally opened and she stared up at him, she gave him a wan smile that caused a cringe as the sore skin on her cheek stretched greatly. The locals weren't mad about all that foreign jabber or all those people stretched out, covered in Nivea cream and not surfing, but it was all right. Like a sea the waste stretched out before her, ending only as the jags rose to breathtaking heights to become the rigid range of mountains called the Crown of Thorns. The procession stretched for miles beneath a warm drizzle and a gunmetal gray sky. She stretched and looked at Amanda in disgust who wore a bright pink bathrobe over a rose pink colored nightgown complete with pink furry trimmings. Show More Sentences The main lodge stretched above a sandy river bank, shaded by trees where one could look across the river and see Samburu tribesmen and their herds. Nelson stood and stretched his muscles, stiff from the prolonged still position and the rigidness of the chair, and went over to check on his sleeping son. Below us in all directions stretched a howling desert of white, stubbled here and there with a few stunted larches leaning at crazy angles against the windborne snow. When stretched, the filament becomes aligned with the flow of the soap film and very little disturbance, called streets, was observed at the tail of the thread. The rolling hills stretched out before them, the grass waving in the wind. Random branches hung aimlessly above her head and the neighbors' rose bushes stretched thinly across their metal fence like an achromatic spider web. She stretched her arms over her head, rolling onto her back. At a movie place in Acapulco I was at a couple of years ago, the seats reclined, and even with my legs stretched right out, I couldn't reach the seats in front of me. He sat up and stretched, and his son hopped onto the couch beside him. Nicole Kidman stretched as a Southern damsel in The Paperboy, but the movie was widely panned. He sat up and stretched, slowly, feeling his sore muscles bunch. The kid wore a white T-shirt with the collar stretched loosely around the top of his smooth chest. In one liquidly fluid movement, I stood and stretched, yawning lightly. A species of knitted golem stretched out on the floor, it extracts sense memories of his childhood home from the Urals folk custom of making carpets out of fabric remnants. The side which has absolutely lorded it over English club rugby for the best part of a decade have shown that their horizons have stretched outside domestic domination. His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth. There are young rock chicks and rock-boys and arty-looking men and women, in plaid, denim, ripped and stretched cardigans. He also whacked a shot for which Marshall stretched to push on to the crossbar, although referee Doug Somers missed the contact and failed to award a corner kick. The keeper immediately launched an attack and with the Silsden defence stretched Meechan, looking marginally offside, latched on to a through ball and calmly slid it home. The docks stretched the width of the town, from wall to wall, a cobbled waterfront avenue with two wharves jutting out into the bay, embraced by the arms of the breakwater. Show More Sentences What had been coiled taut in anaerobic tension in Rage and Yoga has unstacked and stretched out in the sun here. The Burnley boss has been an astute wheeler and dealer in the loan market this season, but again finds his resources stretched to the limit for the forthcoming double-header. Green kohl stretched to my eyebrows, and black galena acted as eyeliner. The caverns distended the area of infarction, stretched pial membranes on the surface, and compressed adjacent, more normal, often central nerve fibers. John hangs the leather on a plaiting hook and applies saddle dressing to the strands so that each one is individually stretched to assure a tight plait. The prototype had a waterproof canvas stretched over hinged timber ribs, quality-tested by letting armies of ants and termites loose on the fabric. Croft eased his own horse forward, looked back one last time at the Arabian who had stretched out its neck toward him as if sorry to see him leave. Standing up from the table where the teens had been playing a board game, a regular ritual at the Easter banquet, she stretched her arms out and yawned. When the bonds that link citizens with their governors are stretched over ever greater distances and are ever more rule-bound and intolerant, they decay and snap. A spandex mask stretched over his face, covering his eyes and nose. She kicked off her silver ballet flats and stretched out her toes like a cat. Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head. He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders. His many embellishings of the tale stretched the credulity of the listeners. In 1450 the English Pale stretched eighteen miles from near Wissant in Picardy to Gravelines in Flanders. Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon. There was old Tommy with his back to the dining-room door, his Glengarry awry on his tousled head, and his bandy legs stretched firmly apart. She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air. Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary. At its greatest extent, Northumbria stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and from Edinburgh down to Hallamshire in South Yorkshire. Show More Sentences Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him. Intensive care units are stretched beyond capacity and further stresses on the system could compromise safety. Around this time a Tudor defensive boom stretched from the Round Tower to Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, as a protection to Portsmouth Harbour. Around the unicorn is wrapped a representation of the Tudor defensive boom which stretched across Portsmouth Harbour. He stretched the funding to include his planned books on geology, and agreed to unrealistic dates with the publisher. When sewing strip sets, use a lighthanded approach feeding the strips under the presser foot so the crosswise grain isn't stretched. The law also applies when a stretched steel wire is twisted by pulling on a lever attached to one end. The same parcel of material, no matter how small, can be compressed, stretched, and sheared at the same time, along different directions. Some have even stretched use of the term to cover any regulation of health care, publicly financed or not. The leather was then scraped, stretched, and cut into sheets, which were sewn into books. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. Under Davies, Forest stretched their unbeaten record in all competitions following Calderwood's sacking to six matches, including five wins. That year, there were 27 tournaments and the season stretched into November for the first time. He stretched his arms out as if to say, 'Put the ball in your pocket, you idiot. Such rigid sails are typically made of thin plastic fabric held stretched over a frame. There was a resurgence of Gaelic power as rebellious attacks stretched Norman resources. Training of formation leaders was not systematic until 1943, which was far too late, with the Luftwaffe already stretched. Slim and Scoones planned to withdraw and force the Japanese to fight with their logistics stretched beyond the limit. The Allied lines, beginning to suffer from cholera as early as September, were stretched. On 15 June 2015, Reuters reported that Airbus was discussing a stretched version of the A380 with a half dozen customers. Show More Sentences Historically, Connacht Irish represents the westernmost remnant of a dialect area which stretched across the centre of Ireland to the east coast. In the east were the Picts, whose kingdoms eventually stretched from the river Forth to Shetland. In the far infrared a self-supporting layer, such as a sheet of mylar stretched over a plane circular surface, is widely used. He wore only a thin-bretelled blue undershirt that rucked under his pectoral mass but stretched ceaseless across his myronic flanks. At its height, its authority stretched over the entire length of the Swahili Coast, including Kenya. In the 1780s, the western border of the newly independent United States stretched to the Mississippi River. It is estimated that a million people attended the procession, which stretched throughout Paris. The ADR itself stretched some hundreds of miles to the north, west and south of the country and almost to the continental coastline in the east. They rarely land on water with their feet stretched forward like pelicans or cormorants. Their posture, with the neck stretched out, tells the male that they are available for courtship. The stone chamber was at the southern end of the long mound, which stretched off to the north. There would be a tenter yard outside the fulling mill where the cloth was stretched on frames. The project was hugely expensive and stretched royal resources to the limit. With the game stretched, he picked the ball up and drove towards the edge of the Everton area. From 1885 the dock system was the hub of a hydraulic power network that stretched beyond the docks. There were seemingly endless queues of lorries on the Dock Road stretched as far as the eye could see. We pulled over to the shore, dragged the boat up ontop the sandbar, stretched our legs and ate some sandwiches. The ocean stretched like a fjord through Heddalsvatnet all the way to Hjartdal. A tundra, with Ice Age flora and fauna, stretched across middle Europe, from Asia to the Atlantic Ocean. We had so many games to cram in such a short space of time, it really stretched our squad and the lads were out on their feet. Show More Sentences The Russian Empire stretched from Poland in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east. The boat was buried under a road and the burial site stretched out towards buildings. As word of these disasters poured in, the extent to which France's forces were now stretched became clear. Due to divergent movement, the lithosphere is stretched and thinned, so that the hot asthenosphere rises and heats the overlying rift basin. When a piece of lithosphere that was heated and stretched cools again, its density rises, causing isostatic subsidence. The patagium is stretched between the arm and hand bones, down the lateral side of the body and down to the hind limbs. Most snakes focus by moving the lens back and forth in relation to the retina, while in the other amniote groups, the lens is stretched. Second, as rifting progressed through Early and Middle Jurassic time, continental crust was stretched and thinned. It was a grassland steppe, including the land bridge, that stretched for hundreds of kilometres into the continents on either side. Out on Fort Street, a pavement princess was sitting on the sidewalk with her back to a lamppost and her legs stretched out. This area included Penzance, Paul, Ludgvan and St Just, and stretched not only from Land's End to St Erth but also included the Isles of Scilly. A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. This aircraft has a stretched fuselage, modified landing gear and a third engine, which is mounted on the tail. Their territory corresponds to the central part of modern Belgium, including Brussels, and stretched southwards into French Hainault. The Globular Amphora culture stretched from central Europe to the Baltic sea, and emerged from the Funnelbeaker culture. Romans settled on the western part of the Caspian Sea, where their empire stretched towards the east. In some real estate ventures however, the term's application is stretched, as in Jamaica Estates, Queens and others. Nevertheless, by that time the Empire stretched from the straits of Messina to the Euphrates and from the Danube to Syria. By 1025, the date of Basil II's death, the Byzantine Empire stretched from Armenia in the east to Calabria in Southern Italy in the west. At that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River. Show More Sentences The regular European troops, stretched out along the entire length of the walls, were commanded by Karadja Pasha. The new sea arm stretched all the way to Damme, a city that became the commercial outpost for Bruges. One simple method is to hold the hand above the horizon with one's arm stretched out. In the early Middle Ages, Frisia stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the Weser River in northern Germany. By 1760, the domain of the Marathas stretched across practically the entire subcontinent. The warp is the set of yarns or other elements stretched in place on a loom before the weft is introduced during the weaving process. Because the weft does not have to be stretched on a loom the way the warp is it can generally be less strong. Of the grand houses that once stretched along Woolwich Common and dotted the northern slopes of Shooter's Hill, little remains. This is due to their more stretched bonds, which gives rise to a GB tension. By 1870 Honister's underground workings stretched under Honister Crag with intermediate workings on the opposite side of the valley at Yew Crags. After the region was conquered in 15 BC, it was incorporated into Raetia, a large district which stretched from the central Alps to the Danube. These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan. Yet this sign of growth and hope is framed by a triangle of spindly wood that subtly evokes torturously stretched arms, as on the Cross. He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives. The first new vehicle will be a stretched sedan called A888 that will be similar to the long-wheelbase Aerobus. This ingenious four-sided mesh bag stretched over a wire frame folds flat when not in use, making for easy storage. The 15cm cut, which stretched from the left hand corner of the victim's mouth all the way to his ear was so deep it penetrated the jaw muscle. Maximize the range of motion by allowing the arms to hang comfortably in the stretched position. The compressions heated the gas while the rarefactions stretched and cooled it. I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot. Show More Sentences The rival, the foe, the ofay, veins stretched and bulged between white knuckles. Before last year, all three ice shelves stretched dozens of kilometers farther from the coast than they had in decades. A galaxy's light is redshifted, or stretched to longer wavelengths, by the expansion of the universe. It was then The Borders who refound their form and Scott MacLeod stretched over for a try which Vili converted. It was probably made in either North Africa or the Near East, and features an elegant stretched Kufic script in gold leaf on deep blue vellum. The model features Hyundai's 'Fluidic' styling, backswept headlamps, lower and stretched jaw line, and rising shoulder lines. Barbaro stretched his unbeaten record to six with a brilliant performance in the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Twin-sets were ruffled, Prada suits twitched, face-lifts were stretched into rictus grins of fear. I am wearing a woollen bathing costume that my mother knitted which stretched in the water and ended up below my knees. Their atmospheres will begin to boil off, and the planets themselves will be stretched into egg shapes by stellar tides. He stretched a measuring tape in front of the jury to emphasize that it was 18 feet long and 6 feet high. The Wolves then struck again when Fa'afili stretched Castleford's defence by regathering his own chip before Briers' crossfield kick resulted in Toa Kohe-Love scoring. The extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a misty horizon. The Oldham Coalfield stretched from Royton in the north to Bardsley in the south and in addition to Oldham, included the towns of Middleton and Chadderton to the west. This may be stretched to 25 MW and 30 MW in Canada and the United States. The threads are then stretched and polished by steel rollers and brushes. Another area of use relates to notions of stretched or lengthy. At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam. This wall stretched across the peninsula between the York and James rivers and protected the settlements on the eastern side of the lower Peninsula from Indians. Although minimal damage was caused in both locations, the attack forced the Allies to upgrade Bahrain's defences, an action which further stretched Allied military resources. Show More Sentences The region stretched from Basra in Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz in Oman. The tabloid favourite stretched out on a faux fur rug in a transparent body stocking to launch the new fragrance but she was significantly more coy in the interviews. The felon Rufus Dawes had stretched himself in his bunk and tried to sleep. But though he was tired and sore, and his head felt like lead, he could not but keep broad awake. These limestones would have been deposited in shallow seas, assumed to be a stretched and thinned portion of the North American continental crust. The atmosphere was electric as the crushing Boneyards, Sleepwalker, Karma and Home Is For The Heartless elicited brutal pits which stretched right back to the mixing desk. This tensile strength is due to the many interceded hydrogen bonds, and when stretched the force is applied to these numerous bonds and they do not break. It is likely that the Alans' influence stretched further westwards, encompassing most of the Sarmatian world, which by then possessed a relatively homogenous culture. In Ptolemy, the Chamae, Angrivarii, and Laccobardi have the Chauci directly on their north, all the way to the coast, and stretched from Ems to Elbe. By the account of Tacitus, the Chauci in his time lived not only along the whole German coast, but would have also stretched down to the lands of the Cherusci and Chatti. Two of the older ferries were to be stretched in length by 12 metres, with upper car decks similar to St Clare's being added, replacing movable mezzanine decks. The gap left by the Belgian Army stretched from Ypres to Dixmude. Accordingly, the Mediterranean basin consists of several stretched tectonic plates in subduction which are the foundation of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. In the early Middle Ages the Frisian lands stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the river Weser, in northern Germany. Pittsburgh stretched it to 10-0 on a Gary Russell one-yard TD lunge in the first minute of the second quarter, at that point outgaining Arizona 147-13 yards. Minaean rule stretched as far as Dedan, with their capital at Baraqish. Rocks at the depth to be ductilely stretched are often also metamorphosed. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain's east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland. The Low Countries became part of the larger Gallia Belgica province which originally stretched from southwestern Germany to Normandy and the southern part of the Netherlands. This event is the Caledonian orogeny, a spate of mountain building that stretched from New York State through conjoined Europe and Greenland to Norway. As far back as anyone can remember, and then a million years farther back, the range of the redwoods and giant sequoias stretched across most of the northern hemisphere. Show More Sentences Scattered domes stretched across Siberia and the Arctic shelf. 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. In addition, a zone of permafrost stretched southward from the edge of the glacial sheet, a few hundred kilometres in North America, and several hundred in Eurasia. French claims to French Louisiana stretched thousands of miles from modern Louisiana north to the largely unexplored Midwest, and west to the Rocky Mountains. This consists of the cemented sediments of Lake Orcadie, which is believed to have stretched from Shetland to Grampian during the Devonian period, about 370 million years ago. The Hindu Majapahit kingdom was founded in eastern Java in the late 13th century, and under Gajah Mada, its influence stretched over much of Indonesia. Their increasingly strained partnership was further stretched by the pressures of worldwide publicity and fame, conflicting egos, and their financial success. An awful struggle for Primrose. Her chin stretched up above a mumpy neck. Sister Raymond put a wet cloth on her forehead, dribbled some water across her mouth. Of the now-vanished panels, Mrs. Gordon hazily recalls a giant, languorous woman stretched the length of one wall, and a multifigure composition on the other. The territory initially known as East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe River in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps. During this time Leicester went 57 games unbeaten at home in a period that stretched from 30 December 1997 to 30 November 2002 and included 52 successive wins. Towards the end of the first half, England stretched their lead further. These revealed Covent Garden as the centre of a trading town called Lundenwic, developed around 600 AD, which stretched from Trafalgar Square to Aldwych. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Under Henry V, the castle hosted a visit from the Holy Roman Emperor in 1417, a massive diplomatic event that stretched the accommodation of the castle to its limits. England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats. Stretching a rubber band will cause it to release heat, while releasing it after it has been stretched will make it absorb heat, causing its surroundings to become cooler. We had a layover while waiting to change planes, so we stretched our legs. Since the eyes take up so much room on the chibi face, the head needs to be stretched and, therefore, usually ends up being oval-shaped to accommodate the oval-shaped eyes. In order to avoid cakings the walls of the tubes are made out of rubber breadths which are stretched over corner steel in the breaks. These rubber breadths oscillate slightly. Show More Sentences The festive relief operation will hand over supplies to stretched rescue centres such as Rough Collie Rescue, Avon Cat Rescue and Cats Protection in Warwickshire. One is sitting on a chair, legs stretched out on a barstool. Examples from Classical Literature Jumping from the boxlike recess in the rear of the car, the form stretched itself and salaamed. And he swung his buckler forward and stretched his right hand to the sword. The blow effectually spoilt the billycock, however, and stretched its owner insensible on the floor. Another kind of trap is a spring bow or a blowgun shot by a vine stretched across the path. He sat down in a chair, and stretched out his legs, with an air of being at home. Just imagine, we'll be able to sleep stretched out instead of doubled up in a bucket seat. Northward stretched the yellow sand-hills with their tussocks of bent grass as far as the eye could reach. Faust is holding out Lauzanne, and stretched me half a point about the mare. These ligaments are stretched across the abdominal cavity and are attached to the abdominal walls. He found the apelike bodyguard stretched out on a bunk, a vacant smile on his face. The Ordovician sea stretched from Appalachia across the Mississippi valley. Along the shelves stretched an array of bottles with liqueurs of every color. Only in the chancel were they protected by sheep's amnion stretched on frames. In turning an angle of the river, however, a broad reach stretched away before us. The Doctor falls down before the barricado, and is stretched all his hapless length fainting on the floor. The long beach, with its walls of foam and of dune, stretched on without change. Emma stretched out her right hand with its small fingers tightly clenched, and shook it at the beleaguering host. Two rows of hills, shadowy, bulking in the darkness, stretched ahead on either side and the canyon lay between. 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