Sentence examples for stretched for days from inspiring English sources

The department's 50 or so generator-powered light towers were stretched thin as the darkness stretched for days in areas of the city, especially on Staten Island.

FULL COVERAGE: Sweeping manhunt for ex-cop The search for Dorner, which stretched for days across Southern California, ended near Big Bear when he shot himself during a fiery standoff with police.

The walkout in Oklahoma — which could stretch for days — is part of a wave of educator revolts striking states where tax cuts have drained state funding for schools.

Right in the heart of Scandinavia, on the railway line between Oslo and Stockholm, Värmland is near total forest that stretches for days across the horizon, broken only by scores of whispering streams and lakes.

That misstep in programming was an example of the difficulty of translating a creative commodity — a band, a television show, a film genre — into an itinerary that stretches for days.

The computer algorithm cycles through all the possible combinations of filmic elements, meaning that the 'full length' of the videos can stretch for days or even years.

But after seeing those neurochemical surges in her animals, she wondered about those last few seconds, hypothesizing that even experiences seeming to stretch for days in a person's memory could originate from a brief "knee-jerk reaction" of the dying brain.

Each winter, a nyctophobic nightmare plays out as polar night blankets the far north in constant darkness that stretches for days or weeks.

As a first demonstration, human mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) embedded in PEG-NB were stretched for several days.

It was the worst of an already menacing cold snap, which has stretched for 10 days and will most likely linger until Sunday.

Last year's lockout stretched for 149 days but resulted in a labor deal that will save N.B.A. owners some $3 billion in player salaries and benefits over 10 years.