Gleaming strands of spit stretched between his lips.
The strands stretched into the vastness, connected to distant relays.
A thin strand of honey stretched between his mouth and the bread, then broke, leaving a thread of honey down his chin.
Over the aeons the strands had stretched.
In this case, single strands of hair stretched and looped across sheets of paper frame words written in orange acrylic.
Then the strings can slip farther before the last molecular strands stretch taught and stop it.
On the viewscreen, they watched an impossibly long strand of tachyons stretch from their ship, past the probe, into the blackness of the singularity.
Its strands stretched outward forever, and inward forever, flung out to eternity and yet curling back and meeting themselves again, making a whole.
Stretching apart as might a strand of elastic clay, what had been split finally into two.
The flesh gave way disgustingly, and strands of silk stretched and snapped.