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- a narrow stretch of beach below the cliffs
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- there was a cardinal at our bird feeder for a short stretch last spring
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- the stories were written over a considerable stretch of time
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- the longest stretch of the drive without any place to get gas
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of stretch (Entry 2 of 3)
- it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version
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- the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered
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- your whining is stretching my patience to the limit
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- if the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time
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adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of stretch (Entry 3 of 3)
- stretch fabrics that don't wrinkle or sag
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The first known use of stretch was before the 12th century
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