"stretch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stretch verbo

stretch + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 46
stretch one's legs • stretch out one's hand • stretch one's arms • stretch out one's arms • stretch out one's legs • stretch one's hand • ...
verbo + stretch
Kolokacji: 7
seem to stretch • try to stretch • begin stretching • start stretching • finish stretching • ...
stretch + preposición
Kolokacji: 59
stretch out • stretch from • stretch across • stretch over • stretch along • stretch between • stretch beyond • stretch down • stretch up • ...
stretch + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 65
stretch thin • stretch away • stretch far • stretch taut • stretch wide • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(2) away, forth
Kolokacji: 2
(4) taut, tightly, tautly
Kolokacji: 3
(5) wide, open, indefinitely
Kolokacji: 3
(6) luxuriously, fully
Kolokacji: 2
(7) endlessly, infinitely
Kolokacji: 2
(9) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(12) languidly, languorously
Kolokacji: 2
(13) gently, painfully, severely
Kolokacji: 3
1. gently stretch = łagodnie odcinek gently stretch
2. stretch painfully = rozciągnij boleśnie stretch painfully
3. severely stretched = poważnie rozciągnąć severely stretched
  • Muresan played effectively for Washington from 1993 to 1997 before missing all of last season with a severely stretched tendon in his right ankle.
  • Despite helping to enroll 8,000 miners into the A.A.M. for his district, funds for the union were severely stretched after a series on strikes during the early to mid-1870s.
  • The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Soviet compliance could be verified, although monitoring ability would be severely stretched if extended to the strategic arms treaty still being negotiated.
  • Now that the cold war is over, this overspending should be taken into account in evaluating the Pentagon's claims to severely stretched resources.
  • It is offering $5 (Canadian) and two Royal Oak shares for each outstanding Lac share, and analysts said its finances were severely stretched.
  • The Boer War had severely stretched the resources of the British Army and had exposed the weakness of the militia and volunteers as an effective reserve force.
  • By late 1915, British forces in the border areas of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, on German East Africa's south-western flank, were severely stretched.
  • This is particularly relevant, as heading 5 of the budget, for administration, is severely stretched.
  • Both sides were severely stretched following the battle.
  • The orchestra is severely stretched to maintain any sort of cogent line, and the fantasy of the work is all but lost.
(14) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2

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