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  • adjective Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

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Examples

  • Blame my lack of sleep, then, for the far-stretched, free association comparison list below if you want.

    Penny Love Hoff: What Voting, Sex and Exercise Have in Common Penny Love Hoff 2011

  • Blame my lack of sleep, then, for the far-stretched, free association comparison list below if you want.

    Penny Love Hoff: What Voting, Sex and Exercise Have in Common Penny Love Hoff 2011

  • Hyundai Group will be far-stretched to finance it.

    Hyundai Deal Sparks Debt Worries Evan Ramstad 2010

  • John Rosenman: Good question — telling a story in an unconventional way, e.g., stream of consciousness, can itself be a far-stretched concept

    Transcript: Envelope Pushing Concepts « Coyote Con 2010

  • So I think this is a little far-stretched for her to try to, you know, go to do a lawsuit and everything.

    CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2009 2009

  • “Enough, my friend, is as good as a feast,” said his rider to him, gently, yet strongly pulling up the far-stretched head, “and too much is worse than a famine.”

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Under the dark sky of the Venus afternoon the ship approached the far-stretched line of the unbroken coast behind which the jungle began.

    Venus in Danger Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • A rebel prince of Koth is fighting to overthrow Strabonus, penurious king of that far-stretched nation, and Conan finds himself among old companions in the princelings army.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • So it was that when the War came at last the main assault was turned southwards; yet even so with his far-stretched right hand Sauron might have done great evil in the North, if King Dáin and King Brand had not stood in his path.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Down by Berwick and Eyemouth, by St. Abb's, and along all that rugged shore, the cruel sea sported daily with bodies of drowned sailors, flinging them from wave to wave, tossing them headlong on to a stony beach, only with greedy far-stretched grasp to snatch them back again to its hungry maw.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

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