Sentence examples for are very stretched from inspiring English sources

"The regime's logistics are very stretched.

"My finances are very stretched with caring for my family.

"We are very stretched at the moment," a hospital official said.

A review showed we are a hospital with too many patients in it and not enough beds, and we are very stretched from a staff point of view.

"Generally they are very stretched now – their manpower on the ground in relation to the territory they're holding is very thin," said Hammond.

"It's looking good, but [with] concerns about anti-social behaviour at one end of the spectrum and concerns of counter-terrorism at the other, we are very stretched".

"We were very stretched and it was easy for them to counterattack," he said.

"Spreads were very stretched at the end of 2000, when investors worried about recession," Mr. Iyer said.

By their mid-20s, they had two children and were very stretched.

"The Fed is very stretched, and that's why they've asked the Treasury to go ahead with these proposals," said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP and a longtime analyst of the Fed's market operations.

The system is very stretched and we have been plain and clear to the opposition and to the government that the generosity of the international community is not something on which anybody can count next year," he said.