Sentence examples for had stretched from inspiring English sources

Sadat had stretched their tolerances too far.

He said he had "stretched" his constituency to the limit.

Drinking that fluid had stretched my endurance greatly.

The wait had stretched for more than three months.

(The culprit was a newly installed rope that had stretched out).

The unspoken, private tragedy of Jimmy Hill's decline had stretched over very many months.

Within four minutes, the Wildcats had stretched the lead to 17 points.

By now the match had stretched to 46 games and nearly five months.

By then, Erasmus membership had stretched to Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey and Switzerland.

By the three-quarter mark this advantage had stretched to 56 imps.

But for a number of reasons, the shoot had stretched to over a year.