Example Sentences

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Although decreased in bulk, she retains an excellent look of health; her round belly and her well-stretched skin tell us from the first that her part is not yet wholly played.

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

In a private house, nothing can be better than a smooth, well-stretched holland, with the carpet beneath.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George

This was a well-stretched, dried horse-hide, with a lasso attached at one end to the head or fore-part of the hide and the other end to the gaucho's horse, as a rule to the surcingle.

From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

The tent shone white beneath the sun, and not a wrinkle marred the smoothness of the well-stretched canvas.

From If Any Man Sin by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)

The frame of the snow-shoes is made of wood, the cross-pieces are of strong and well-stretched thongs.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882