"stretch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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