Sentence examples for Rather stretched from inspiring English sources

While such a scenario is theoretically possible, if rather stretched, how would quitting the EU help?

Of course, the whole notion of 'realism' is rather stretched in a game set forty years in the future and featuring bio-augmented super soldiers battling intelligent robot tanks, but this is going to be a major challenge for fans.

China veterans like First State say prices are now looking rather stretched, while Tim Cockerill, head of funds research at Ashcourt Rowan, is also cautious given the signs of overheating.

They forgot that companies about to go public are usually rather stretched, and that the weight of a few extra checks that might be easy for General Electric to bear are enough to prevent younger companies from being public at all.

"Paul had constructed a monumental new shed (which rather stretched the definition of a shed because he had included a section for his wife to grow stuff!) and wanted a memorable opening ceremony.

After four days of culture, HSC could still be identified and exhibited a rather stretched morphology, whereas KC or other contaminating cell types could not be observed).

Germany would rather stretch out maturities.

But I'd rather stretch than bend over to do it".

It all rather stretches the seductive conceit that Macau, under Portuguese rule, is a model of colonial retreat when compared with Hong Kong, under British rule.

Yet when he said they were also "unlucky in the way games have turned against us", he was rather stretching it.

Olympians may dedicate most of their waking hours to developing their throwing, jumping, paddling or riding skills, but they are not liberating countries, curing ravaging diseases or commissioning high quality television programmes – in short, to describe them as heroes (even if they do win gold – which most don't) is rather stretching the definition of the word.