"stretch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Our cavalry is thinly stretched along the length of the Canadian border.
- It had one of New York's largest and most thinly stretched police precincts, the 34th.
- The Germans were too thinly stretched to do more than man a series of strongpoints.
- When we get there, with our thinly stretched forces, the enemy is waiting.
- The woman on the bed was a skeleton covered with thinly stretched, ash-gray skin.
- Some consumers - those with thinly stretched finances - may find themselves unable to make credit payments.
- Knowing he'd been used in such a ploy didn't improve Kirk's already thinly stretched tolerance.
- They would be too thinly stretched and we could outflank them.
- And even then, access to Washington's thinly stretched resources is by no means guaranteed.
- And starting up the huge reactor would introduce new problems for Lilco's thinly stretched power network.
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