7 sentences with 'stretching'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stretching and other words derived from it.
• « Don't forget the stretching and flexibility exercises. They are simple, although very boring, but by no means to be avoided. »
• « Gigi tests it by stretching a 30-centimeter piece: it doesn't break, which confirms that the dough is just right. »
• « Nor was there ever a united Greek empire: there was a great Greek civilisation when Alexander the Great conquered what he thought was most of the world, stretching from Greece itself through Egypt, the Middle East, to western India, but it collapsed into warring kingdoms after his death. »
• « The oldest human civilisations arose in the Fertile Crescent, an area stretching from present-day Israel-Palestine through southern Turkey to Iraq. »
• « The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching 4,000 miles from its mouth in the Mediterranean to its source at Lake Victoria in Central Africa. »
• « In other words, the entire expanse of land stretching from the borders of India to Greece, including almost all the cultures described in the previous chapters, were all conquered and controlled by the Persians. »