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How to use the word stretch in a Sentence?

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Truth is not flexible. If they have to stretch, bend or hide the truth in order to get that connection or sale; they might not the best person to connect with or buy from.

Loren Weisman

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10 months ago

This will encourage you to be a more conscious spender and empower you to stretch your money further.

Jesse Mecham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He would have loved the opportunity to stretch and do dramatic roles.

Shannon Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I prefer to day hike in performance pants because of the added stretch and comfort they provide on the trail, these are extremely soft and really easy to move around while hiking but also stylish enough for a post-hike beer at a local brewery.

Erica Zazo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Overall hiking pant fit is quite subjective, but folks should take a few factors into consideration, for starters, Sahara Convertible Pants should n’t limit your range of motion. Lots of hiking pants now tend to have more stretch, which allows a wider range of movement. Pants that are too tight will often limit your range of motion, and tight pants may also limit breathability and ventilation.

Wesley Trimble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see.

Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He made this with personal funds to prevent something from coming out, false, that is embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. That is not a campaign finance violation by any stretch.

Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you (make) a couple of big shots down the stretch and then find yourself in a position to make a play on the other side, I think that gives everybody a good boost, i think I got more compliments on that in the locker room than any shot I made tonight.

Steph Curry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Builders build and make dreams a reality, but this plan looks like a stretch because the country cannot afford to undertake massive new projects when the national debt is over $31 trillion, there are some interesting ideas here, but this is not the right time for bold plans that dream big. There’s no money left in Uncle Sam’s till to pay for big dreams and daring projects.

Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The palpable energy we’ve seen all cycle behind the fight for a new majority is only intensifying in the final stretch.

Dan Conston

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Pausing student loans for as long as we have, even when, you know, the U.S. economy has bounced back post the pandemic, has been an inflationary ... influence, even if what the White House is saying is true — and I think that's a bit of a stretch — it's still correct to say that this measure is holding in place ... an existing upward pressure on prices.

Jonathan Bydlak

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It will be longer, and might even stretch past the start of school, which is unusual, shoppers will wait for prices to come down and get what they hope are better deals.

Brian Mandelbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During this whole stretch of time, Alex Jones content itself has been essentially hollow, watching Alex Jones from my perspective has gotten a lot less interesting.

Dan Friesen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This area, Landaff and Easton, is about 5 miles away from where Maura’s car was found, and it's in the easterly direction, the direction she was headed. The other encouraging point to this news is the fact that this was the focal point of a very early search back in May of 2004 from a local tip that stated a local saw a ‘young person running or moving quickly’ along that stretch of road. So for all of those reasons, this is really encouraging news from her family.

Julie Murray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just more validation that I do belong out here, and honestly, I didn’t have my greatest stuff this week. Hit it amazing, but just putted pretty poorly until coming down the stretch.

Christopher Gotterup

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's going to be a stretch for us to keep our doors and our clinics open for people coming from across the country. We are ready and our values are there, but it will be a stretch and to be real, this is decades in the making.

Michaela Lara Cadena

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you use the rewind feature that's now standard on many NES and SNES games available on Switch, you DID NOT by any stretch of the imagination beat the god damn game.

Mike Matei

added by SuperQuotes
1 year ago

It's a tough one. It's a tough pill to swallow. It felt like we were leading the whole game, it felt like we were in a good position. It felt like we put ourselves in a good position to win a ballgame and things didn't go our way down the stretch.

Tyus Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know how important these games are down the stretch. I just wanted to get my body and my mind prepared for tonight. Felt really good out there. Just a little bit hurt about not winning the game.

Dwight Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s why I like going through all these kind of games during the regular season, we had our share of challenges going down the stretch. But what I love about this group is we come in the next day, work at it and really try to get better. Those experiences make you stronger.

Erik Spoelstra

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t think that’s a stretch for the industry to do, and I don’t think it would hurt our ability to meet our local demand.

Tom Hart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I didn’t really do anything at all today and I very easily could have won the tournament, i mean, good drive on 18, and I have a wedge in there and could be in this playoff just as easily. But a lot to build on a, lot of positives, and we got a big stretch coming up, so I’m excited for it.

Justin Thomas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we were just in our heads. We missed a lot of shots we didn’t get back, but we just tried to stretch the lead, honestly, and wanted to come out strong and just dominate the game.

Raina Perez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we came out super aggressive, especially on defense. We took them out of the things they thought they would be able to get pretty easy, but then I think they turned on the heat, they started pressing a little bit more, getting more in our passing lanes. We just made some careless turnovers, which I think that’s pretty much us just beating ourselves right there in that little stretch in the first quarter.

Paisley Harding

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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