Stretching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRETCHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (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 act of stretching
• 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
• act of expanding by lengthening or widening
• exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
• an act of stretching one's limbs or body
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to draw out or open to full length
• a. & n. from Stretch, v.

Words related to STRETCHING

stretch12 stretched15 stretches14 stretchings17

Words that contain STRETCHING

stretchings17 restretching18 outstretching19 overstretching23

How to use STRETCHING in a sentence

• Stretching away under his eyes, mile after mile, was the vast white desolation that reached to Hudson Bay.
• I had proceeded on my pilgrimage down the river a long way past Greenwich, and had now reached a desolate and level reach of land stretching away on either hand.
• He stood up abruptly, and, stretching his neck, peered through his unnecessary glasses and the diamond panes down into the street.
• He swallowed by an effort, stretching his neck each time.
• For before them was line upon line of jagged and lofty peaks, stretching as far as the eye could reach, gradually melting in the distance into the cold white gleam of snow.
• Here to the north is Cuba, stretching westward how far no man knoweth.
• Then Minerva lifted up a great rough stone and hurled it at Mars, striking him on the neck, and stretching him senseless on the ground.
• They drove on and on through the forest, and at last came out from among the trees into the open country, a broad, flat plain stretching to the river.
• We have seen how La Salle dreamed of a great French empire, stretching from the Great Lakes to the mouth of the Mississippi.
• The Yukon lay at his feet, a sea of ice, disappearing around two great bends to the north and south, and stretching an honest two miles from bank to bank.
• The prophet stood erect as a giant oak, stretching his withered hands to heaven, all the mass of his snow-white hair and beard falling about him to his waist.
• He grunted again, untied the thongs that bound us, and went, stretching and yawning, to find his breakfast.
• The trapped prisoner had shied halfway around, stretching out his arms to find a firmer grip on some rock large and heavy enough to anchor him.
• By stretching my neck several feet I could just see the flames leaping over the trees, but that was all.
• Concentration was on a front stretching from Soissons to Rheims, a distance of about 30 miles.
• On, on came the little procession so near that the girls, by stretching out their hands, could almost have touched them.
• The storms had eaten some of the massive cliffs into forms of castles and there were galleries of arches and columns sculptured by the rain, stretching for miles on either side.
• At the ends of the line were battalions of cavalry, stretching off to cover the wings, and give notice of any attempt by the Rebels to move on our flanks.
• At length by stretching their spare bodies and necks to the utmost, they caught sight of the water in the bottom.
• Then stretching herself, she yawned like a tigress in the rising sun.
• On all sides through the gigantic old trees there was a distant, lonely prospect of range after range of mountains stretching as far as the eye could reach.
• She settled down, stretching slightly backward as though to give her lungs fuller play.
• At first it seemed that he could not endure to face the round of useless days now stretching out before him.

Similar words containing STRETCH without suffix ing

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