"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
1. stretch taut = odcinek naprężony stretch taut
  • The calm was like a sheet stretched taut in the wind.
  • She felt lost and bewildered, stretched taut by the need to know.
  • Stretched taut by the harness, his skin was a hot, angry red.
  • Above the but on the right of the man still waiting there, the cable stretched taut.
  • White and blank, stretched so taut it felt like a drum.
  • It stretched taut in the blackness of the road outside the Wall.
  • He was so skinny, just skin stretched taut over bones.
  • The skin was dark and like leather stretched taut over the bones.
  • The skin was a little too thin, as if it had been stretched taut.
  • The dwarf was coming, the line in his hands stretched taut.
(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
(14) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2

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