Stretches is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRETCHES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRETCH, to draw out or open to full length
• (of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking
• cause (something) to become longer or wider by pulling it
• extend or spread over an area or period of time
• last or cause to last longer than expected
• (of finances or resources) be sufficient or adequate for a certain purpose
• make great demands on the capacity or resources of
• cause (someone) to make maximum use of their talents or abilities
• adapt or extend the scope of (something) in a way that exceeds a reasonable or acceptable limit
• straighten or extend one's body or a part of one's body to its full length, typically so as to tighten one's muscles or in order to reach something
NOUN:
• the fact or condition of a muscle being stretched
• the capacity of a material or garment to stretch or be stretched; elasticity
• a difficult or demanding task
• a continuous area or expanse of land or water
• a continuous period of time
• a period of time spent in prison
• a straight part of a racetrack, typically the home straight
• the distance covered on one tack.
• a stretch limo
• an act of stretching one's limbs or body

Words related to STRETCHES

stretch12 stretched15 stretching16

Words that contain STRETCHES

restretches16 outstretches17 backstretches26 homestretches23 overstretches21

How to use STRETCHES in a sentence

• Bare and ugly stretches of coast are made into a gay garden by this lovely flower.
• Your largest stretches of land, what you call your big estates, are mere clods of soil where the few cattle that one sees look to me like lost ants.
• A great and growing race may acquire vast stretches of scantily peopled territory in any one of several ways.
• There were considerable stretches of slippery road to be passed.
• The traveller obtains an uninterrupted view of the immense melancholy plain, which stretches away to the horizon with hardly a single tree to relieve the desolation.
• The ground here is open and stretches away, free from buildings, to the walls of the city.
• The large and well-built city, containing 156,000 inhabitants, is enclosed by a wall, beyond which the country stretches away in appearance much like the Campagna at Rome.
• Now Black Alan must pick his way, and now there held long stretches of easy going.
• One of its chief military characteristics is that from the high ground on neither side can the top of the plateau on the other side be seen, except for small stretches.
• There were stretches of deep sea-green as well, far off upon its bosom.
• The Central Lake washes the northern end of the Lower Terrace, and stretches away from it to the east and west.
• To the northward, the Hudson stretches away until it seems to disappear in the dark shadow of the Palisades.
• The mole stretches out several hundred yards on that side of the entrance of the port which is next the sea.
• Shortly after quitting Vincennes the road crosses the Marne, and stretches away across a broad bottom.
• Concerning the immense region which stretches from Gila river to the valley of Mexico, over 1300 miles in length, we know practically nothing.
• To the left of the town stretches a long valley, bounded on each side by a gently-sloping ridge.
• The bank of the river which stretches to the west, now covered by the light-house buildings, and inclosed by docks, was then occupied by the root-houses of the garrison.
• The long stretches of floor and counters were vacant as though the store were closed.
• The weight of the snow had already broken down long stretches of telegraph and telephone wires.
• Far in front stretches the dark valley of the Hedgeman River.
• After riding rapidly for some distance, they reached long, lonely stretches, favorable for conversation, and Graydon was too fond of hearing Madge talk to lose the opportunity.
• The valley stretches out in either direction far below us, as if to offer an uninterrupted flow for the mountain brook through which it passes.
• As for the bay, stretches of snow fields, with dark pools and broken gray ridges met ice at the end of the world.
• Much worse, the employee knows himself that he has failed to make good, and that at the best nothing but a career of mediocrity stretches out before him.
• There were short stretches of road where the flying snow had not settled, and others where the snow was deep, but loose and even.

Similar words containing STRETCHE without suffix s

stretched15 stretcher14 stretchers15 restretched17 restretches16 stretchered17 upstretched19 outstretched18 outstretches17 stretchering18 backstretches26 homestretches23 overstretched22 overstretches21

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