Sentence examples for stretching the term from inspiring English sources
"It may be stretching the term "gesture" a little," admits David Smith, "but the Charge of the Light Brigade was pretty ineffectual".
(Though I do realise that labelling the when-did-you-last-wash-that-jumper? Foals as pop stars might be stretching the term past all credibility).
It can be a large bowl of Doritos and a jug of mojitos; which is stretching the term dinner party to its limits, I agree.
Things to Ponder in Reassessing Debt A KNEE-BUCKLING car payment may have you thinking refinance, but unless you are sorely strapped for immediate cash, a new loan that lowers the payment by stretching the term may do more long-term harm than short-term good.
The goal would be to reduce the monthly payments on all of those loans — by stretching the term to 40 years, or lowering the interest rate, or even lowering the amount of the loan — so that payments would not be higher than 38percentt of a family's monthly income.
Stretching the term, the best painter (although she doesn't have a lot of competition and is not represented by her best work) is the Northern California quiltmaker Rosie Lee Tompkins, whose patchwork geometries provide some of the show's few spots of color.
It was a plan that made perfect sense to a very rich man whose view of American culture in general and the N.B.A. in particular has no doubt been shaped by the power of celebrity — at least until the Nuggets and Anthony's agents began stretching the terms like Silly Putty.
Doug Aitken is an artist known for stretching the terms "site-specific" and "land art" to their fullest.
Dale Leifeste's two botanical digital prints are clever, focused and pure, while David Humphrey's "Sno, Tree" (2003) boldly stretches the term "representation".
"When people get to the top of politics you see them less and less, so I wouldn't want to stretch the term," she says, before going on for several minutes about how brilliant she thinks Ed is.
The dominance of the singer-songwriter-influenced Howard and the Mumfords might suggest the so-called folk revival continues, if that didn't stretch the term "folk" into gibberish.
