The rubber bandstretched almost to the breaking point.
1659 December 30 (date written),Robert Boyle,New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine)[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] H[enry] Hall, printer to theUniversity, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published1660,→OCLC:
The inner membrane[…] because it wouldstretch and yield, remained unbroken.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzasstretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
Behind them,stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.
Three varieties of wild rice,O. rufipogon,O. officinalis andO. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zonestretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan.
To say crossing the street was brave isstretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
To say he's been to this park a million times isstretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.
(transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
Her bizarre explanation reallystretches credulity.
1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, inTrains Illustrated, page130:
By the fullest exploitation of modern signalling, multiple-unit operation and flying and burrowing junctions the S.R. has greatly increased the capacity of its tracks to carry this growing load of peak-hour passengers, but that capacity is nowstretched to the limit.
2019, B. Webbet al., “Simulation of grating compressor misalignment tolerances and mitigation strategies for chirped-pulse–amplification systems of varying bandwidths and beam sizes”, inApplied Optics, volume58, number 2, pages234-243:
Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used tostretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion,[…]
a. 1941,Evelyn Underhill, quoted in2010, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston,The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
In the afternoon I went for astretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
(baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
(baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
“Hey,Stretch,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.
2024 February 10, Amelia Watson,Gawr Gura, 2:46:24 from the start, in【Deep Rock Galactic】yoooooooooo[2] (YouTube live stream):
Amelia: I mean, you're already a dwarf. Gura: Oh, OK,Stretch.
(horse racing) Thehomestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
After the harvest there was astretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever[…]
(Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
There is a grandstretch in the evenings.
(sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
2000, Rob Neyer, Eddie Epstein,GBaseball Dynasties: The Greatet Teams of All Time[3], page179:
The '42 Cardinals are best known for their amazingstretch run. St. Louis won 43 of their last 51 games and came back from a double-digit deficit in games in early August to edge out the Dodgers for the N.L. flag.
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