"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
  • A thin wire had been stretched tautly across the doorway.
  • Her body was stretched tautly and her legs wouldn't move.
  • Sinclair held Connor's look for a moment that stretched tautly between them.
  • There were a few women among them, a pair our age, their skin so smooth and unblemished it seemed fake or too tautly stretched.
  • He was a head taller than Nars, with dark skin stretched tautly over his aquiline face.
  • Her skin had taken on a yellowish cast and was stretched tautly over her narrow face.
  • Shawn's other arm, the outside one to the chair, ended within the tautly stretched outside pocket of his coat.
  • Their hides are stretched tautly over sharp flanks and rows of ribs.
  • He took in the air deeply, his muscles stretching tautly over his rib cage.
(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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