Categories: Grammar

Sentences for Stretch, Sentences with Stretch Meaning and Synonym Words

stretch

Meanings;

(of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.(intransitive verb)
Straighten or extend one’s body or a part of one’s body to its full length, typically so as to tighten one’s muscles or in order to reach something.(intransitive verb)
Extend or spread over an area or period of time.(intransitive verb)

Verb(V1)	Past Tense(V2)	Past Participle(V3)
stretch	stretched	stretched

Verb-es(Ves)	Verb-ing(Ving)
stretches	stretching

Synonyms

be elastic, be stretchy, be stretchable, be tensile, extend, straighten, straighten out, unbend, extend, spread, continue, range, unfold, unroll, be unbroken, put a strain on, put great demands on, overtax, overextend, be too much for, reach out, hold out, put out, extend, outstretch, thrust out, stick out, expanse, area, tract, belt, sweep, extent, spread, reach,

Example Sentences with stretch

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.