Sentence examples for thing stretched from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, a laborer at the quarry says he found the strange thing stretched across the Mont-Agel road.

"It's a big thing stretched over a long period of time, like seeing an elephant from space," says Ford, sounding for a moment like Frank, who is an uninhibited minter of fabulous phrases: "happy as goats", "solitary as Siberia", "pale as potatoes", "a frank, good-hearted roll in the alfalfa".

Folding is one thing — stretching is another (though it may also depict a couple different devices).

The whole thing stretches and crumples along with the skin, but is sealed well enough against the elements that it can last for days before failing — previous (and thicker) devices only lasted hours.

Here's a standup's single semi-insight-cum-joke-type-thing stretched thinner than bubblegum across 22 minutes.

None of this three strikers - Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe or Roman Pavlyuchenko - have impressed while he has found things stretched at the back because of injuries.

The Senate approved a bill in April that would, among other things, stretch out payments that the agency has to make into its health care fund for future retirees over 40 years, lowering the annual payment to about $2.5 billion.

The 1972 arrangements are casual and the tempos deeply laid back, and the vocals could have been delivered from a swaying hammock; the previously unreleased "Done a Lot of Wrong Things" stretches past eight minutes.

In the proposal, the president plans to change aid practices to make sure those receiving financial aid are moving toward a degree by, among other things, stretching out the disbursement of Pell Grant money over the semester, rather than giving it out in a lump sum at the start.

"We're trying to rush things, stretch things, and it's disappointing to see, so I'm very disappointed.

For example, perhaps persisting things stretch out four-dimensionally through time, but without being subdivided into temporal parts.