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Short sentences using stretched

He stretched his neck. [11]
Pierre stretched out his hand. [11]

Sentences containing stretched two or more times

The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]

More example sentences with the word stretched in them

Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon. [9]
That was very wrong, and when he stretched himself out to sleep, the image of the valiant smith stood with tangible distinctness before his soul. [10]
But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
Without saying a word in reply, or giving them a look of reproach, he followed the old woman who had summoned him (and who had now rejoined them) into another room, where his infant friend, half-dressed, lay stretched upon a bed. [12]
She was familiar with the way they were going, but its length seemed to have stretched tenfold. [10]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. [5]
To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
He stretched inert, wet, hot, his body one great strife of throbbing, stinging nerves and bursting veins. [13]
All five Arabs were stretched on the deck, and the insatiate boatmen were dealing a finishing stroke to those who were only wounded. [10]
If in that way--" He stretched out his hand protestingly, the fingers spread in excitement. [11]
The stallion's neck was stretched, his shoes rang on the cobbles, and my eyes were fixed on a narrow space between carriages coming together. [9]
Next, I myself was stretched on the bed with three diseases at once, and all of them fatal. [5]
The old man was stretched beside her, and with her hand upon his neck she lay and dreamed. [12]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
The soft whispering voice continued its rhythmic murmur, something oppressed him and stretched out, and the strange face was before him. [2]
I stretched ropes upon either side to serve as railings, and then my bridge was complete. [5]
The prisoner, mounted upon a tall steed, had pressed him very closely; nay, the Eletto's victory was not decided, until a musket-shot had stretched the other's horse on the ground. [10]
When he stood up to open a door--he opened all the doors with old-fashioned latches--he was portentously tall, and when stretched on the rug before the fire he seemed too long for this world--as indeed he was. [4]
The sketch ran up the left side of the sheet and stretched across it. [8]
The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis,--those Greek young men were of supreme beauty. [6]
But the baggage trains stretched out so that the last of Beauharnais' train had not yet got out of Moscow and reached the Kaluga road when the vanguard of Ney's army was already emerging from the Great Ordynka Street. [2]
They blocked the traffic, halted the clanging trolleys, surged into the mouth of West Street, booing and cursing at the soldiers whose threatening line of bayonets stretched across that thoroughfare half-way down toward the canal, guarding the detested Chippering Mill. [9]
Presently he turned towards the East and stretched a robe upon the ground, and with stately beauty of gesture he spread out his hands, standing for a moment in the attitude of aspiration. [11]
It is not too much to say, if her feeling be not misconstrued and stretched far beyond her own conception of it, that he was her one remaining interest in the world. [9]
This was a tongue of land stretched like a finger into the sea, on whose point stood a little palace which Cleopatra, incited by a chance remark of Antony, had had built there to surprise him. [10]
The man rose to his feet with a cry, and his hands stretched above his head, as it were in a kind of ecstasy. [11]
He listened breathlessly to hear what more the Indian might say; but Arjuna, who regarded it as sacrilege to waste the highest lore on one unworthy of it, went on reading to himself, and Adventus stretched himself out to sleep. [10]
Ferrol was about to follow him, but he had a sudden fit of weakness, and he caught up a pillow, and, throwing it on the chest where Shangois had sat, stretched himself upon it. [11]
When you get tired of them in the temples and take a trip on the river, you find idol giants, flashily painted, stretched out side by side on the shore. [5]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
The end of this bridge was defended on the other side of the river by one of those fortresses called a boulevard; and this boulevard also commanded a raised road, which stretched from its front across the plain to the village of Marguy. [5]
They crossed the third great transverse artery of the city (not so long ago, Mr. Parr remarked, a quagmire), now lined by hotels and stores with alluring displays in plate glass windows and entered a wide boulevard that stretched westward straight to the great Park. [9]
For many hours they crept along the side of the mountain, then came slowly down upon pine-crested hills, and over to where a small plain stretched out. [11]
In her bathroom there she lay, the fair young creature, stretched upon the floor and covered with a sheet. [5]
All at once there rushed in on me the thought of Juste Duvarney as I saw him last--how long ago was it?--his white face turned to the sky, his arms stretched out, his body dabbled in blood. [11]
Sid yawned, stretched, then brought himself up on his elbow with a snort, and began to stare at Tom. [5]
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. [6]
Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence. [5]
They have stretched their beds in the hummocked snow, They have set their teeth to the Pole; With Death they have gamed it, throw for throw, And drunk with him bowl for bowl-- They are all for thee, O England! [11]
The promenade under the willows was deserted, the great river stretched away under the moon towards the forest line of the farther shore, filmy and indistinct. [9]
One by one the troopers rode through the faint belt of light that stretched from the door, and were lost in the darkness, the thud of their horses' hoofs echoing behind them. [11]
Karay, with all the strength age had left him, stretched himself to the utmost and, watching the wolf, galloped heavily aside to intercept it. [2]
Lying down in the shadow of a thick tamarisk bush, above which a tall palm towered proudly, he stretched his limbs comfortably to rest in the assurance that the people were now provided for, in war by his good sword, in peace by the Law. [10]
In front of the portico was a saddled horse, craning his long neck at two panting hounds stretched on the ground. [9]
She picked up the pigeons and was about to speak, but she glanced at the bedroom door, where her exhausted visitor had stretched himself on her bed, and beckoned her uncle to another room. [11]
The Colonel took the other armchair, stretched his feet toward the blaze, and stroked his goatee. [9]
With verdant green the mountains glow, For thee, for thee, the lilies grow; Far stretched beneath the tented hills, A fairer flower the valley fills. [5]
My eyes beheld the lovely portrait in front of me, and meseemed it looked at me with a deep gaze and stretched out loving arms to me. [10]
Dark spots on the light sand marked the places where others had thrown themselves on the ground, or, kneeling, stretched out their arms as if in defence. [10]
Macavoy turned to the Indians, stretched out his hands and tried to speak, but could not. [11]
Before them stretched the harbour, dotted with sails; men-of-war lay at anchor, among them the little Ruby, Commander Dibbs's cruiser. [11]
And flinging wide the gate, stretched out her hand for me to take. [9]
No tremor shook the fringe of moss that hung from the heavy boughs, so still was the day, and an indefinable, milky haze stretched between us and the cloudless sky above. [9]
That boat was the foulest I was ever in; and the smell of the breakfast saloon when we threaded our way among the layers of steaming passengers stretched upon its floor and its tables was incomparable for efficiency. [5]
Arising, he greeted the fawning dogs and stretched his cramped body, and then, gathering together bunches of dead sage sticks, he lighted a fire. [13]
I have forgotten the famous bears, and all else.--I remember the Percy lion on the bridge over the little river at Alnwick,--the leaden lion with his tail stretched out straight like a pump-handle,--and why? [6]
It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees. [2]
Some part of the edifice had been a baronial chapel, and here were effigies of warriors stretched upon their beds of stone with folded hands--cross-legged, those who had fought in the Holy Wars--girded with their swords, and cased in armour as they had lived. [12]
The hinges of the doors stretched out like arms, instead of like hands, as we make them. [6]
The prefect caught the despot, who, seized with giddiness, stretched out his hands as if seeking a support. [10]
The head of the desolate wretch lifted, the eyes glared at David for an instant, as though to see whether he was being mocked, and then the spare figure stretched itself, and the outcast stood up. [11]
They had reached the centre of the rampart, when she saw in the distance a tall figure stretched at full length. [10]
After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it. [6]
It was all that there was left of poor Old Sophy, stretched out lifeless, upon her darling's grave. [6]
Her memory of that moment is, strangely, not of his face (she did not deign to look at that), but of the muscle of his shoulder half revealed as he stretched forth his arm. [9]
She shed no tears, but at last she stretched out her hand and let it rest upon his forehead for a moment. [11]
How could they take care of such little creatures on a march which stretched over several months? [5]
If he was suspected, and if the law stretched out its hand of steel to clutch him--what an ignominious end to it all; what a mean finish to life, to opportunity, to everything worth doing! [11]
Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon-or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eyesight. [5]
And on a sudden I flung up my arms and, without knowing what I did, stretched them forth, as though beside myself, towards that hotly-loved maiden. [10]
When, returning from such an excursion, he stretched himself again on his couch, the old woman, pointing to the hanging-lamp which the impatient creature often knocked with his head, would call out, "Euphorion, mind the oil. [10]
These fountains had such an alluring look that I often stretched myself out when I was not thirsty and dipped my face in and drank till my teeth ached. [5]
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows. [5]
They can't be stretched, and they can't be twisted. [11]
Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground, dead, with his face close to the crack of the door, as if his longing eyes had been fixed, to the latest moment, upon the light and the cheer of the free world outside. [5]
They represented him stretched upon the cross, his countenance distorted with agony. [5]
Colder and tighter stretched the skin over his face; colder and harder grew the polished butts of his guns; colder and steadier became his hands as he wiped the clammy sweat from his face or reached low to his gun-sheaths. [13]
From thence eastward stretched the great waste of prairie and forest inhabited by roving bands of the forty Indian nations. [9]
Beyond its obscurity stretched the glitter of the deep drawing-room. [8]
At their foot stretched rows of olive, citron and plane-trees, plantations of mulberries and vines; at a higher level grew firs, cypresses and nut-tree copses. [10]
An awning was stretched over the deck, and at a walnut table covered with papers sat Monsieur Vigo, smoking his morning pipe. [9]
Her hands were stretched out in welcome, and then I had them pressed in my own. [9]
The young man stretched out his hands eloquently. [11]
The young officer stretched out his hand. [11]
Then John Brown stretched out his hand and said, in a hoarse whisper: "It was his voice--Charley's voice, and he's been dead a year! [11]
Suddenly his hands stretched out as if to seize her shoulders, his face became tortured--he swayed. [11]
A rope was stretched in front of them, and they were also guarded by their officers. [5]
Whereupon the Colonel stretched his legs apart, seized his goatee, pulled his head down, and gazed at him for some time from under his eyebrows, so searchingly that the blood flew to Mr. Hopper's fleshy face. [9]
Awaiting sleep, he stretched himself at full length, but he remained as wide awake as by day. [10]
At last she stretched herself on the couch beside her sister, who had so long needed sleep and rest, and a few minutes after the deep dreamless slumber of youth chained both, until Katterle, at the end of an hour, woke them. [10]
Thence the eye stretched across the town, catching the dome of the Court House and the spire of St. John's. [9]
Then, like a stream of white bees pouring from a huge swarm, the steers stretched out from the main body. [13]
About midnight the storm quit and the moon come out and lit up the ocean, and we begun to feel comfortable and drowsy; so we stretched out on the lockers and went to sleep, and never woke up again till sun-up. [5]
The instant we stop to speak to them, the skinny hand of an old woman is stretched out of a window just above our heads, the wrinkled palm itching for money. [4]
The carpenter was still stretched upon his mattress when he struck the water seventy-five feet from the boat. [5]

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