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How to use the word Stretching in a Sentence?

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[The schools] have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes for all students at all costs. And at the heart of the American dream, is excelling, is advancing, is stretching and recognizing that we have students that have different capabilities, some students have the ability to perform at one level, others need more help, and we have to allow students to run as fast as they can to dream the biggest dreams they can possibly dream and then go get them.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think the most important takeaway is that we now have a record stretching back 550 million years, demonstrating that animals respond to changing environmental conditions, often resulting in major extinction events, even though the causes of today’s environmental change and responses of animals may be different, the fact that such change in the past has been shown over and over again to lead to major extinction events is a crucial one when considering what actions we should take to mitigate the course of our current human driven climate change.

– Scott Evans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Routines and rituals can be very comforting and useful, i believe in keeping them and then stretching one piece( of them) to add in something new, while allowing the kid the agency and power to decide if they want to do it.

– Karen VanAusdal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A bow has no conscience: it is a prolongation of the hand and desire of the archer. It can serve to kill or to meditate. Therefore, always be clear about your intentions. A bow is flexible, but it has its limits. Stretching it beyond its capacity will break it or exhaust the hand holding it. Therefore, try to be in harmony with your instrument and never ask more than it can give.

– Paulo Coelho

added by Normando
1 year ago

I teach classes, so that keeps me honest and committed, but I sometimes schedule workouts with friends, finding an accountability buddy can help. And it’s all about how I feel that day. Maybe one day I'll take a yoga class where I can do lots of stretching or go on a walk the following day. The digital space is also helpful. The goal is to keep moving.

– Brooke Burke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The proposal allows wealthy households to spread initial top-up payments on unrealized income over nine years, and then five years for top-up payments on new income going forward, stretching payment over multiple years will smooth year-to-year variation in investment income, while still ensuring that the wealthiest end up paying a minimum tax rate of 20 percent. Illiquid taxpayers may opt to pay later with interest.

– White House

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It may seem absurd to us that these women are wearing sequined evening gowns, with faces full of makeup at 10 a.m., eyelashes stretching out to infinity, but we're doing what they're doing in a more muted way every day.

– Danielle Lindemann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People are starting to see stretching as that modality that fits into health and wellness, similar to physical therapy or chiropractic care.

– Verdine Baker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I love going over there and competing. I love stretching myself. I love being uncomfortable, it is going to be hard. But it’s also just a beautiful opportunity to go out there and give these guys an avenue to be themselves and play with freedom and that’s kind of how I’m going to approach it.

– Zach Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Supreme Court's not Supreme Court a very clear doctrine, there's not a great sense of just how badly [ agencies ] have to be stretching the statute to run afoul of Supreme Court.

– Philip Wallach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m all about lengthening and toning, i don’t do heavy weights. I don’t really do anything too intense. It’s more cardio and stretching and yoga and keeping long, lean muscles as opposed to doing a bunch of reps with weights. I usually [work out] six days a week [but] it’s more of a mental thing. Mentally, I feel so much better after I work out. I would say an hour a day, sometimes two hours. It just depends, but I’ve learned to not be so hard on myself.

– Charlotte McKinney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love to do yoga as it centers me and also at the same time keeps me in shape, since there is a lot to do around the house sometimes I don’t have much time to work out, in which case I try to do some stretching and hold a plank for five to 10 minutes.

– Mehdi Taamallah/Nurphoto -RRB- Ambrosio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Cloud cover will be widespread across the Great Lakes and Midwest, stretching into the Central Plains for overnight into Wednesday morning.

– Monica Garrett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I scored there to get us back to (within) one and I felt we were just stretching a little bit too much after that. We weren't supporting our defense and coming up as a unit.

– Kyle Connor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re kind of following a schedule where I’m starting to catch, i’m supposed to be starting to hit. I’m running. Now we’re going to get into stretching and mobility and stuff like that just because my last week and a half, two weeks, I haven’t been able to really stretch it out because they want to let it heal.

– Yasmani Grandal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Depending on where you are, wind gusts today are on the border of 40 mph, upwards of 60 mph possible, a lot of the higher winds are going to be in the far northwest part of Colorado and the far northeast part of Utah, stretching down maybe towards the I-70 corridor.

– Kris Sanders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can make an argument, and some people are, about stretching out the doses by giving a single dose across the board, and hoping you’re going to get the second dose in time to give to individuals.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

– Jackson Browne

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.

– Iraj Harirchi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It begins with rhetorically stretching out an open hand.

– Brian Fallon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I will tell you this, there is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now and I will bring back to you, if you have trouble stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent, I know you and I will fight for you. If you have trouble deciding if youre going to pay for your child care or your long-term care, I know you and I will fight for you. I do not have the biggest name up on this stage, I dont have the biggest bank account, Im not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

– Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We were able to see how the collagen fibers deform without a catastrophic failure including the mechanisms of twisting, folding, sliding, stretching, delamination.

– Wen Yang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The secret to this whole business is that the waveform the pattern of this stretching and squeezing encodes information on the source, the thing that made this gravitational wave.

– Maximiliano Isi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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