Sentence examples for barely stretched from inspiring English sources

The normal tissue, by contrast, barely stretched at all.

Outside, farmland stretched to the horizon, inside, my wallet barely stretched at all — I was out $25, including tip.

Yeah!" yelled a man in a pink and teal Hawaiian shirt that barely stretched over his belly.

The premiers were barely stretched in their 20.12 (132) to 10.9 (69) victory, earned with 12 individual goalkickers.

It was also quite obvious that his repertory barely stretched past the Eagles Hotelel California," along with a few other Eagles classics.

But they couldn't test USA goalkeeper Hope Solo enough, officially recording four shots on goal, but a couple of those saves barely stretched Solo.

So Green then bought the assets with a newly-formed company, Sevco, the £5.5m barely stretching beyond the administrators' fees.

Her letters to Gladstone, sometimes scrawled in blue crayon and barely stretching to two lines, read like dispatches from an interior world to which the drawbridge has been pulled temporarily shut.

It is one of the wonders of the world: insects whose distinctive orange and black wings barely stretch four inches flying on thermal currents up to 3,000 miles in search of a warm spot to spend the winter.

In Yemen, where the state's control barely stretches beyond the cities and rebellious elements are perfectly capable of giving the military a bloody nose, this makes sense: cajoling, threatening, charming, co-opting and bribing can be more effective than brute force.

The low-gluten dough is small and weak and barely stretches at all before breaking.