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Definition of Stretch along
1. Verb. Occupy a large, elongated area. "The park stretched beneath the train line"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stretch Along
Literary usage of Stretch along
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maori Lore: The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of by George Grey (1904)
"O, Hatu-patu, I see you—not far from me ; step out, stretch along ; step out,
... There you are ; L will have you presently ; step out, stretch along. ..."
2. Maori Lore: The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of by George Grey (1904)
"O, Hatu-patu, I see you—not far from me; step out, stretch along ; step out, ...
There you are; I will have you presently ; step out, stretch along. ..."
3. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, George Campbell Macaulay (1904)
"... the rising sun or those towards the North, whether it be surrounded by sea:
but in length it is known to stretch along by both the other divisions. ..."
4. Landscape in American Poetry by Lucy Larcom (1879)
"... gazing where Gaunt shadows stretch along the hill, may regard the dark tracery
of interlacing boughs but as a network through which the glow of sunset ..."
5. Landscape in American Poetry by Lucy Larcom (1879)
"Still "the pathos of the falling leaf" is as positive a reality as " Gaunt shadows
stretch along the hill" the transparency of June sunshine, ..."
6. Textbook of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1922)
"arranged to give either the average stretch of the specimen, or to give the
stretch along two symmetrical gage lines, the average of the readings along ..."
7. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"arranged to give either the average stretch of the specimen, or to give the
stretch along two symmetrical gage lines, the average of the readings along ..."
8. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"arranged to give either the average stretch of the specimen, or to give the
stretch along two symmetrical gage lines, the average of the readings along ..."
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