stretch out

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stretch someone or something out

to extend or draw out someone or something. Molly stretched the baby out to change his clothes. She stretched out the baby, who had rolled into a ball.

See also: out, stretch

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Sprague turned himself into a bulletin-board, and read off "notices" of meetings and societies and things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of doom -- a queer custom which is still kept up in America, even in cities, away here in this age of abundant news- papers. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context Then she spoke to him and said, 'The Great Spirit felt sorry for you, because you would not be comforted, so he let me come back to you, but you must not stretch out your hand to touch me till we have seen the rest of our people. The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context			strapped for straw straw in the wind straw man stray stray in stray onto streak streak across streak of bad luck streak of good luck stream stream down stream in street street smarts strength stress stretch stretch a point stretch away stretch away to stretch forth stretch legs stretch money stretch out stretch out to stretch the truth stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach strew strew on strew over strew with strictly strictly business strictly speaking stride stride in stride out of strike strike a balance strike a bargain strike a blow against strike a blow for strike a chord strike a happy medium strike a match strike a pose strike a sour note strike as strike at			stretch blt stretch fault stretch former stretch forming stretch forth stretch forth Stretch Glass Society Stretch Individual Retirement Account Stretch Individual Retirement Accounts stretch injury stretch injury stretch injury stretch injury stretch IRA Stretch IRAs stretch it stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch limo Stretch limousine Stretch limousine stretch mark stretch mark Stretch marks Stretch marks stretch money Stretch or Starve stretch out stretch out to stretch pants Stretch Performance Network stretch pressure stretch receptor stretch receptor stretch receptor stretch receptor Stretch receptors Stretch receptors Stretch Reducing Mill stretch reflex stretch reflex stretch reflex stretch reflex stretch relaxation stretch relaxation stretch relaxation stretch relaxation stretch release stretch runner stretch the meaning stretch the point stretch the rules stretch the truth stretch the truth stretch thrust stretch too far stretch wings stretch wings

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