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  • With a stretched-out postseason — the World Series could end three weeks before Thanksgiving with Game 7 scheduled for Nov. 5 — there's room for nearly all LCS games in East Coast prime-time slots, starting about 8 p.m.

    Fox, TBS hope for long, exciting major league baseball playoff series 2009

  • She found that property one windy day, when she was driving west from Laramie and "the sky was filled with stretched-out laminar wave clouds."

    Undone by a house of dreams Marie Arana 2011

  • Her singing style, which included generous vocal flourishes, gospel touches and stretched-out emotional high notes, influenced a generation of divas who would come after her.

    A Pop Diva Is Lost Ahead of Grammys Ethan Smith 2012

  • Droopy, ill-fitting sweat pants with stretched-out waistband

    Archive 2010-04-01 alison 2010

  • Maybe if Dr. Oz were really so smart he'd open a line of cosmetic ear-fixing clinics right now, b/c you know that one day there will be a line of 50-year-olds waiting to have their stretched-out earlobes reconstructed.

    Some things that creep me the fuck out Tyler 2009

  • B. he wore her clothes and that was what did it, the stretched-out shoulders of her sunday dresses, the shirred cotton loose around her hips. she could handle chest-hairs on the soap but not in the seams of her belly-tops. even now the tlak-tlak of heels on kitchen tile makes her jaw crack.

    Three Lullabies (after 'Ooh La La' by the Ditty Bops) Kirsty Logan 2011

  • Ignore the air pressure, and imagine cutting the two balloons into a series of rubber bands - some from the very stretched-out balloon, and some from the barely stretched balloon.

    Two Balloon Surprise 2009

  • Droopy, ill-fitting sweat pants with stretched-out waistband

    Recipe for disaster alison 2010

  • Ignore the air pressure, and imagine cutting the two balloons into a series of rubber bands - some from the very stretched-out balloon, and some from the barely stretched balloon.

    Two Balloon Surprise » E-Mail 2009

  • But driving from Laramie to Centennial on a windy day when the sky was filled with stretched-out laminar wave clouds I saw to the west, in the direction of the distant property, one cloud in the shape of an immense bird, the head and beak, the breast looming over the Rockies.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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