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Example sentences for "long stretch"

  • It is a long stretch, and one which, as the result shows, is as much within striking distance of the Orange Free Staters as of the men of the Transvaal.

  • It took courage and strength, for it was a long stretch.

  • He was impressed with the fact that, once across, the way lay clear before him--a long stretch of solid ice.

  • From the first of April till the first of May was a long stretch of days, and you never heard any one talk about a May Party till April Fool was over.

  • Yezo, Sakhalin and the Kurile Isles harbor the last feeble remnants of the Ainos, a primitive people who formerly occupied a long stretch of the Asiatic coast south of the Amur mouth.

  • A mile away, indeed, there was a long stretch of woodland, lying like a great green smudge upon the monotony of grey.

  • Coming to a point from which he could see a long stretch of level ground behind him, Ahmed pulled up, turned in his saddle, and narrowly scanned the course of his flight.

  • Curium lay wholly open to the south-western-gales, but had a long stretch of sandy shore towards the south-east, on which vessels could be drawn up.

  • He turned the corner and saw a long stretch of road, and a grey dress vanishing.

  • A long stretch up hill tired them long before Stoney Cross was reached, and they dismounted and sat under the shade of a little oak tree.

  • Sometimes he could hear their pneumatics stealing upon him from behind, and looking round saw a long stretch of vacant road.

  • The sea has gradually shifted it further and further inland, and it now covers what was once a long stretch of good pasture-ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long stretch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    careful consideration; great light; long account; long accustomed; long after; long article; long bones; long breath; long chain; long cord; long day; long discourse; long distance; long duration; long gallery; long history; long periods; long pole; long procession; long rest; long ride; long suit; long talk; long train; longer believe; service rules