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View definitions for stretch out

stretch out

verb as in drag on/drag out

verb as in drag out

verb as in eke out

verb as in lie

verb as in prolong

verb as in recline

verb as in repose

verb as in rest

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Example Sentences

Debuting a new magazine in an age where print media is collapsing, especially among Latinos, seems a little like stretching out on a lawn chair on the deck of the Titanic as it’s going down.

Think of this handful of short films as five fingers stretching out from one palm, all a bit different from each other but connected nonetheless.

From Salon

“To an already strained and stretched out staff,” Kostelnik told The Times, “seeing facilities they’ve worked at for so long being taken from them and handed to another agency is extremely demoralizing.”

When you stand up, those muscles are stretched out to 180 degrees, often resulting in hip tightness and pain.

He spoke of a scene of chaos, with people running inside and outside a very large school that stretches out over about 17,000 sq m.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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