Good thing, too, because it was time to stretch them past all recognition.

She said the delay may stretch past this summer, into fall or even winter.

But that would be stretching an argument past the breaking point.

The hand beneath his turned over and the smile was one he knew, stretching past the confusion.

After last night's victory, the celebrating stretched well past midnight.

Negotiations on the full budget have stretched more than a week past the April 1 deadline.

His light stretched past her and cast a shadow where there had only been darkness before.

The kitchen stretches past the ordinary and maintains its grace.

A thin aerial had opened up, stretching far out past the end of the boom.

They stretch the budget process past the time for any orderly reckoning.