Sentence examples for stretched time from inspiring English sources

"stretched time" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to denote a period or duration that seems longer than it really is. For example: "I felt like the meeting lasted for stretched time, but when I looked at my watch it had only been 30 minutes."

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Adrenaline and alcohol stretched time and compressed it, fermented details, stirred the order of things.

For "Stan the Man," a bright original, Mr. Mehldau borrowed the chord changes of Charlie Parker's "Confirmation," and within that framework he stretched time.

As the singers stretched time with their voices and the dancers stopped it with their gestures, I reminded myself that Cambodia's performing arts had been all but decimated under Khmer Rouge rule.

Dortmund's football under Lucien Favre has been described as "modern jazz" compared with Jürgen Klopp's brand of heavy metal but there was bit of everything played in a frantic opening 45 minutes in which the Spurs defence was stretched time and again.

I turned back to the first page and started again and I've never done that before or since, but I wanted to find out how Burgess had done it: how he'd stopped and stretched time, how he'd make a crack in the world just wide enough for someone like me to escape through it.

Ki was determined as the slope of the linear fitting of the Patlak's plot showing AT t)/Ap t) versus the ratio of time integral of the right hand side of Eq. 1 to Ap t), i.e., the so-called stretched time.

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The heel of the stretched leg was kept on the ground for the whole stretching time.

Pitbull had no interest in stretching time.

Increasing demands on our attention skew and stretch time.

Still, stretching time to its limits was a hallmark of his.

What makes something interesting to do is that — through repetition, coördination, perseverance — it stretches time.

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