Sentence examples for be stretched on from inspiring English sources

"Part of the reason I didn't buy it is because I thought I'd be stretched on what I could leave in the company," Ms. Gilbert said.

Tournament football tests the resources of the strongest nations and Northern Ireland, for all their superb organisation, team spirit and the momentum of a 10-game unbeaten record, will be stretched on that score at the European Championships.

Yet it is stretching on, through different regimes, coaches and disappointments, at odds with tradition as well as optimism.

Two tight layers of the plastic wrap was stretched on one side of the hub, secured with a rubber band, excess wrap trimmed, and the drum was ready to use.

We are stretched on our surveillance capabilities.

I feel I've been stretched on the rack.

Several other nominations are being stretched on the filibuster rack: Priscilla Owen, Charles Pickering, William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown.

Finally, the skin is stretched on a frame and imperfections like dark skin are scraped away.

All of the staff were stretched, on 12-hour shifts, but still standing.

Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham are stretched on the floor of room 1012 in the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, demolishing a bottle of J&B whisky.

It illustrates how much the United States is stretched on the foreign policy front, and how hard it is to extend its resources beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.