Sentence examples for stretches round from inspiring English sources

THE dining-room sign proclaims: "All entrées served with fruit, vegetable, beverage and dessert"; hands go up for second helpings of beef lasagne; and on the street outside the queue of San Francisco's homeless and hungry stretches round the block.

No matter how speedy or sluggish the growth, the most remarkable aspect of Japan is its refusal to embrace globalisation beyond a veneer of McDonalds and Krispy Kremes (where the queue stretches round the block).

But that would still leave plenty that could be useful for farming.Most of it is concentrated in a few countries in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina, and in Africa in the so-called "Guinea belt", a vast loop of land that stretches round the continent from west Africa to Mozambique.

Enlistment lines stretched round the block.

THE queue to meet Grumpy Cat stretched round the block.

A buzz of anticipation reverberates through the queue that seems to stretch round the block.

Global supply chains have stretched round the world and many European companies have outsourced production to Asia.

A few days later, the line stretched round the block for last year's SXSW buzz band Haim.

Clearly, this is no secret, for there was a line stretching round the block on Monday evening, when the musicians presented a performance at Alice Tully Hall.

The streets of Maidstone became a jungle, too, as thousands jostled outside the Granada cinema in a queue that stretched round the block and up Gabriel's Hill.

One of the highlights of the Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil shopping calendar is surely the Repetto sample sales where the company sells off seconds with the slightest of defects, and queues stretch round the side of the factory.