Sentence examples for stretching long from inspiring English sources

After roles had been reversed when a stretching Long couldn't direct the Scot's centre on target, the lead was doubled amid more dubious defending.

He painted outside, stretching long sheets of linen, some dyed with indigo and cochineal (two nonlocal materials he imported from Mexico), on the ground.

Stretching — long promoted as a way to prevent injury, to reduce soreness and to speed post-exercise recovery — may not fulfill its promise.

About a month ago residents in Aden, which has a history of civil disobedience stretching long before the current uprising because of its southern separatist movement, started closing their shops and not going to work every Saturday and Wednesday.

The singing was briefly stilled when, at the 1-minute mark, Dejan Damjanovic gave his team a glimmer of hope by stretching long and volleying the ball beyond Hart's left hand.

From Boxing Day to Australia Day, our national ideal gives us a month of this dream life, stretching long and dusky, salt-licked and sandy, drowsy from the heat, shocked by the ocean, that shuttle run from shack to sand to surf and back.

Lawyers critical of the attack near the Syrian city of Raqqa on 21 August accused ministers of stretching long-established legal definitions setting out what constitutes an imminent threat to a country and its permissible acts of self-defence.

You have to stretch long enough so they can't go back".

With no final set tie-break, matches could stretch long into the night.

Outside your apartment, the New York winter of 2002 stretched long into the following year.

School days have stretched long into the night since the government made homework compulsory nine years ago.