Sentence examples for to stretch himself from inspiring English sources

And, unlike Allen, Gervais continues to stretch himself.

But he dragged his heels and failed to stretch himself.

He knew it was time to stretch himself.

He always tried to stretch himself, often in mischievous ways.

The longer his career went on, the less he seemed to stretch himself.

In the trashy teen show, the 24-year-old Badgley hasn't exactly had to stretch himself.

It's generous of Mr. Wheeldon to give them opportunities, but he is the one we want to see stretch himself.

If he was going to succeed, he felt he would have to do it physically; it was as if he believed he could stretch himself to span the divide between the two worlds.

Fondane, who was not just a philosopher but a poet, film-maker and literary critic, might be said to have stretched himself too widely to achieve renown in the Anglophone world; but he's well known in France, where his kind of intellectual – multidisciplined, impossible to pin down into a single school of thought – is celebrated more than it is in the UK.

"Rubens has been faster because Michael is beginning to wonder whether he wants to continue stretching himself so much," he said.

He didn't stretch himself.