stretching
/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/ adjective C2- Requiring a high level of effort or performance.
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An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”
Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year as I’ve done this I’ll have to put on longer skirts.
They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent.
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