Sentence examples for stretch being from inspiring English sources

Led by Cody C. Routson, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, the paper supplies strong evidence of a half-century "megadrought" in the Southwest that occurred in the second century, with the driest stretch being a 25-year period from A.D. 148 to 173.

Hogg spent the best part of 20 years as a resident at Budock hospital in Cornwall, his final stretch being in its Lamorna wing – a unit shut down soon after he left in 2006 when a series of abuses including physical harm to residents and withholding food came to light.

On Wednesday night, another member of their German generation came close to a major upset when 21-year-old Sabine Lisicki failed to convert on a match point against No.3 seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia with a 5-2 lead in the third set and eventually lost, suffering from what appeared to be severe cramps down the stretch, being carried from the court in tears and on a stretcher.

A later cover featured his illustration of a weightlifter at full stretch being aped by a dog carrying a bone.

It has been cut off from the mainland four times since 1819, the longest stretch being the 32 years from 1832 to 1864, and each time the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has reconnected it.

For the only binary variable (shoulder stretch), being able to perform the stretch was the reference category.

(The longest stretch was from 1974 to 1991).

But the final stretch is the hardest.

The two-week stretch is significant.

"Down the stretch was really fun.

Not much of a stretch, is it?