Sentence examples for capable of stretching from inspiring English sources

For the Galapagos' more arid islands, it meant the appearance of tortoises capable of stretching up to higher branches.

Of course, when we think of space in everyday life, we don't think of it as something which is capable of stretching.

Gardner planned the Sketch Book as a form of documentation, but was capable of stretching the truth for the sake of storytelling.

But Reminiscing in Tempo showed that Ellington was more than capable of stretching himself beyond the conventional three-minute form and creating jazz on a scale hitherto unimagined.

When reach is more important, it can be configured as a 3.75-meter-tall horizontal boom capable of stretching out 7.5 meters.

The research group of Rob Shepherd, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has developed a highly stretchable electroluminescent skin capable of stretching to nearly six times its original size while still emitting light.

Montgomerie and Langer have done their part over the decades, and though neither is the player he once was, they have proved this autumn that they are still capable of stretches of greatness.

The DNA molecule has been modeled for long as an elastic rod capable of resisting stretching, bending and torsion.

The device is capable of cyclically stretching (by means of a pulsatile pump) developing tissue to increase the mechanical strength of the graft.

After several steps of technical improvements, the tensioner proved to be capable of actively stretching the retracted and degenerated muscle back to the original length and to withstand the external forces acting on it.

3 Such magnetic tweezers have been shown to be capable of direct stretching of both short DNA and protein tethers at large applied forces 4, 14, 15, 45 and have been used by us to investigate the mechanosensing mechanisms of talin and α-catenin.