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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outstretch .
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Examples
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His prize in reachable site, he outstretches his arm to grab the little blue mouse.
Archive 2008-07-01 ____Maggie 2008
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His prize in reachable site, he outstretches his arm to grab the little blue mouse.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (copy) ____Maggie 2008
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TechCrunch has clearly staked out a new fanatical opposition to anything Apple-related and an unwavering fundamentalism that outstretches welcoming arms of credulity for anything Google-related.
Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation Erick Schonfeld 2005
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(Uncle Bob outstretches his arms, gets an ear to ear grin on his face and hugs you tightly, cupping your cyber ass ever so gently)
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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"I like you so much --" He outstretches his arm towards the motionless, beloved wayfarer.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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He would indeed forbid the manoeuvre altogether except when your own line outstretches that of the enemy, or when you are forced to pass through the enemy's fleet to save yourself from being pressed on a lee shore.
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888
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But there is always rather more appetite than food in the country; -- such, at least, is the common result under the present mode of distribution: the hunger overlaps and outstretches the provision; and there was comfort in the reflection, that with the razor-fish on which to fall back, it overlapped it but by
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Far outstretches my imagination of how this could have occurred or especially how it would look from my adolescent viewpoint.
Bend Blogs Beth Patterson 2010
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Over a song or two, this vegetarian Brahmin boy, poor at English, and with a bunch of carrom groupies for friends, outstretches his arms to a background score.
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Over a song or two, this vegetarian Brahmin boy, poor at English, and with a bunch of carrom groupies for friends, outstretches his arms to a background score.
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