Sentence examples for badly stretched from inspiring English sources

Chicago's ability to handle all this traffic is being badly stretched, however.

That would have caused more hurt and greater strain on badly stretched public funds.

Shouldn't the city's badly stretched resources be deployed in support of the election rather than a sporting event?

Even then, the states — whose Medicaid budgets are already badly stretched — will have to put up substantial money of their own.

Shoppers seem happy with it, and its business rates are filling Bolton's coffers, which have been badly stretched by central government cuts.

They want to invest billions of dollars in a badly stretched military and fix embarrassing shortcomings in the system that is supposed to be treating veterans.

Adding that to the Libya operation will badly stretch the budget, and then there will be more costs to restock.

This is the floor space of a miserly one-bed stretched and badly designed into the shape of a three-bed because someone thought they could make more money out of it if they did, and then it's being calculatedly targeted to students because they are seen by the property industry as half-desperate, deadline- and location-dependent easy marks.

The severity of the injury depends on how badly the ligaments are stretched or torn in the ankle.

I was joking to a friend that every time I try to finish a first draft, I feel like I'm playing the accordion very badly — you know, stretching the thing out, and then contracting it again.

Drawing on just one album and a handful of EP's, Badly Drawn Boy's set stretched more than two and a half hours.