Sentence examples for for a stretch then from inspiring English sources
Although the water eventually gathers into a single stream, the cave's upper reaches are full of oxbows and tributaries, meandering and intertwining through the rock, paralleling one another for a stretch, then veering apart or abruptly ending.
The conversation went cordially for a stretch, then took a surreal turn in which the throaty older voice assured me that it wasn't as if he needed to live there.
He liked the service aspect, so he got his credentials, along with a master's degree, did some teaching, worked at district headquarters for a stretch, then took a test to become a principal.
It was not much of a stretch, then, for him to begin carving violins and violas.
It wasn't much of a stretch, then, for Chanel, during wartime, to find herself the mistress of the German intelligence officer Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, a charming character who had spied on the French fleet in the late 1920s, and who found himself pleasingly single in occupied Paris, having presciently divorced his half-Jewish German wife just before the passage of the Nuremberg Laws.
It wasn't too much of a stretch then for me to become invisible, prioritize others' desires above my own, numb myself out.
In one of Kleitman's first experiments, he kept half a dozen young men awake for days at a stretch, then ran them through a battery of physical and psychological tests.
But since Sloan-Kettering is a cancer hospital, patients typically stay a while — the average is six days, and many are there for weeks or even months at a stretch — then return repeatedly as outpatients.
Move into a stretch, then release for a moment and contract the muscles in the area.
His mellow, sweet-tart tone was a physical presence, and he gave it plenty of air, often holding a note for a long stretch, then taking a breath and modulating to another one.
Indeed, the ground seemed to slope downward for a long stretch, then tilt upward again, as if someone had carved out an enormous ditch.
