Stretched example sentences

If such calamity happens in a very wide spread area or is stretched over a longer time period, it may cause a situation of starvation.In the west, armies fought from trenches stretched along eastern France.Before colonial times, Maasailand stretched over a vast area from north Kenya to the steppes of northern Tanzania.You cannot imagine, dearest Connie, my feelings as I looked into the eyes of the Fritz officer, who approached me, hand outstretched.It stretched to the Pacific and comprised today's Central Asian states, as well as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.“Dr Forsyth, my apologies for this imposition on your time!” Sir John advanced with outstretched hands.“Okay, okay, but first you must get on the bus,” said the conductor, and he stretched out a hand to help her up.She stretched out the first finger of her right hand so that it served as a perch and the little bird flew down and sat on it.Against the backdrop of densely wooded hills a sea of tea bushes stretched as far as the eye could see.A Sanskrit prashasti (see Chapter 2 for an example of a prashasti) praising the Delhi Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban (1266-87) explained that he was the ruler of a vast empire that stretched from Bengal (Gauda) in the east to Ghazni (Gajjana) in Afghanistan in the west and included all of south India (Dravida).Weak with hunger, she rushed to him, her hands outstretched, her eyes brimming.The stranger had stretched himself out on the floor and lay with a piece of pig iron under his head and his hat pulled down over his eyes.