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  • 1. stretching
  • Rhymes with Stretching
  • Stretching in a sentence
  • Quotes about Stretching
  • 2. stretching
Table of Contents
  • 1. stretching
  • Rhymes with Stretching
  • Stretching in a sentence
  • Quotes about Stretching
  • 2. stretching
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. stretching

noun. ['ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ'] act of expanding by lengthening or widening.

Synonyms

  • extension
  • tension
  • expansion

Antonyms

  • flexion
  • relax
  • unstrain
  • decrease

Rhymes with Stretching

  • sketching
  • fetching

Sentences with stretching


1. Noun, singular or mass
Avoid stretching or distorting the strips as you sew.

2. Verb, gerund or present participle
Perform a simple full-body stretching routine to help wake your body and mind.

3. Adjective
Remove large-gauge or stretching earrings if you have them.

Quotes about stretching


1. Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
- John C. Maxwell

2. Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin

3. There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
- Stephen Colbert

2. stretching

noun. ['ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ'] exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent.

Synonyms

  • physical exertion
  • exercising
  • workout
  • physical exercise
  • pandiculation
  • exercise

Antonyms

  • push
  • inelasticity
  • shrink
  • arise
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