3 examples of stretchings in sentences

Thenceforth the holdings and the stretchings will be distinct in your mindwill constitute two great families, not one.

You will not perceive that tender, for example, belongs with the stretchings until you go back to its primary idea of something stretched thin, or that tone has membership in that family until you connect it with the sound which a stretched chord emits.

And here we drew rein on the leaf-strewn grass, breathing quickly, with reddened cheeks, and the horses nosed each other, with long stretchings of the neck and rattling of bits.

3 examples of  stretchings  in sentences