12 Metaphors for stretching

At 100 feet the stretch was 8.0 80 feet the stretch was 5.0 60 feet the stretch was 5.0 40 feet the stretch was 3.5 20 feet the stretch was 1.5 - - 300 23.00

The stretch of road to which I have just referred is now one long street, or soon will be, reaching from the once Soho toll-gate to the New Inns, and farther on, indeed, to the park wall of Sandwell.

Our vast stretches of desolate and deserted cut-over lands are silent witnesses to the ruin which has been worked by the practice of destructive lumbering.

Your largest stretches of land, what you call your big estates, are mere clods of soil where the few cattle that one sees look to me like lost ants.

From the direction of the morning sun he saw they were sailing southward, and the long stretch of land on the right he concluded must be the Jersey coast.

I saw that the stretch of green sward between the rocks had been a lake.

"That great sandy stretch is the bed of the Santa Ana," said he.

Learning to say "on the station" instead of "at the station," the idea being that the great stretch of land on which the station was located was not really land, but water; and the long wooden barracks not really barracks at all, but ships.

This stretch is seventeen and a half miles in length and does not include that portion of the road which lies within the city of Baguio.

The full stretch, toe to finger, is seven feet three inches.

He had tapped the mountain streams and dug out a laundry where a man could wash his shirt and go up and be killed in it, all in a morning; had drained the trenches till a muddy stretch in them was an offence; and at the bottom of the hill (it looked like a hydropathic establishment on the stage) he had created baths where half a battalion at a time could wash.

Not only was the chopping down of the forest the first preliminary to cultivation, but it was also the surest means of subduing the Indians, to whom the unending stretches of choked woodland were an impenetrable cover behind which to move unseen, a shield in making assaults, and a strong tower of defence in repelling counter-attacks.

12 Metaphors for  stretching