Sentence examples for stretch thousands from inspiring English sources

The U.S. war front, in the first decade of the 21st century, at a time of national economic disaster, would stretch thousands of miles across the Muslim world, from western Iraq to eastern Afghanistan.

Ice on the comet will vaporise, creating a glowing tail that will stretch thousands of kilometres across the sky.Comets are fossils, made of material left over as the planets coalesced from a giant cloud of dust whirling around the newborn sun 4.6 billion years ago.

Shadows lengthened to stretch thousands of miles across the planet's famous rings this summer as they slowly tilted edge-on to the Sun, which they do every 15 years, casting into sharp relief every bump and wiggle and warp in the buttery and wafer-thin bands that are the solar system's most popular scenic attraction.

RNA strands stretch thousands of nucleotides long, and there may be only one offender out of 100,000 different strands floating in a cell at any given time.

Whether McGregor actually had war on his mind, this evocation of the 1854 Battle of Balaklava -- in which the thinly stretched 93rd (Highland) Regiment routed a Russian cavalry charge -- and its significance as a symbol of British mettle, is gripping.

The first section runs from Gansevoort to West 20th Street and the next will stretch from 20th to 30th Street.

The final frontier, however, may be Hudson Yards, the city-led development project by the Related Companies that envisions a huge mixed-use complex of five skyscrapers spanning 11th and 12th Avenues and stretching from 30th to 33rd Streets.

Like last year's, this year's parade in Manhattan will stretch from 44th to 79th Streets, beginning Saturday at 11 a.m.

It used to stretch between 26th and 28th Streets, but has wilted steadily over the years and now occupies just a single city block.

The thoracotomy device was installed to stretch the 6th and 8th ribs.

Although the fruit stands still stretch from 23rd Avenue to Bay Parkway along 86th Street, the tradition is gone, along with the many Italian immigrants who once predominated.