Sentence examples for stretch at times from inspiring English sources

This claim becomes a stretch at times.

Like a Senate version last week, the lengthy hearing got increasingly tetchy, with both sides frequently interrupting each other, and Kerry – who entered on crutches after breaking his leg cycling – was forced to stand and stretch at times.

It's a stretch at times, but it does explain who all those haughty people are who crowd the Breslin Bar: they are the interns to the assistants of the assistants to the stars, letting down their hair after a long day slaving over a hot seating chart.

In an impressive Off-Broadway debut, Juliet Brett delivers a touching performance as Rosy, the Perches' daughter caught in the middle of their marital dispute, though it is a stretch at times to believe a 16-year-old could be so naïve, even in 1964.

The peloton, stretched at times to more than a mile long, flies along the historic streets.

This had been more a test of their resilience but, even when stretched at times, they had still emerged unscathed.

"Leinster are a quality side who like to operate at a quick tempo, and we know we'll be stretched at times.

That mandate may have been stretched at times, and Tory backbenchers would probably rather see money spent on policing British streets than on helping a far-off uprising.

But while Beasley was stretched at times, and occasionally needed interventions from the players around him, he was far from carried by those players – if anything he consistently reminded them of one of the macro strategies teams should remember when facing Ghana: if you can isolate the supply through the middle to Gyan, and force them out wide to deliver their crosses, they can be frustrated.

If the Lions seemed alarmingly stretched at times as the Reds fired out long passes and put men into space at breakneck speed, the tourists did not wilt under the pressure applied by Quade Cooper and chums.

Although stretched at times, City finished the stronger and, after Fernandinho had hit the bar with a header and Steven Taylor cleared off the line, Negredo scampered clear to ease their nerves, rolling in after a fortunate ricochet off Tim Krul in the final moments.