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- excessive stretching can cause the fabric to tear or lose its elasticity
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- your constant stretching of the truth is going to get you in trouble someday
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of stretching (Entry 2 of 2)
- 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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- I stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me
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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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“Stretching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stretching. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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