Sentence examples for desperately stretched from inspiring English sources

On a break point in a crucial game in the third set, Clijsters arced a lob high over Venus Williams's head that Williams desperately stretched for, but could not reach.

The advancing Gascoigne desperately stretches out a leg, but misses the ball by inches.

As a teenager Peter Shilton was so devoted to becoming a professional he used to hang for hours on end from the banisters of his parents' grocery shop, trying desperately to stretch his 6ft frame an inch or two.

Apart from the title track's euphoric burble-and-grind and The Brainwasher's acid-house villainy, Human After All is a joyless collection of average ideas stretched desperately thin.

The Secret Service can no longer afford to pay the hundreds of agents tasked with protecting the Trumps, who have traveled so frequently in the president's first seven months and live so far apart that they've left the agency stretched desperately thin.

Hundreds of desperately wounded men were stretched out on boards laid across the high-backed pews as closely as they could be packed together.

"Opponents of the bill are stretching desperately for any semblance of an argument," he said.

But he was stretching desperately and all he could do was ram it past Abbondanzieri at the near post.

He brought Dyson down at the 1, holding him there as Dyson desperately tried to stretch the ball over the goal line.

(A poster in her dorm room, brought from home, showed five pint-size ballerinas at a dance bar, the middle girl desperately trying to stretch to reach as high as the other four).

There is awe in the complexity of it all –- a parking lot with hundreds of cars, officers and civilian workers bustling about, and buildings that appear to stretch desperately to every corner of the island, all covered in a forest of barbed wire that seems never-ending and endlessly dense.