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stretchings

noun as in tension

noun as in elongation

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Example Sentences

After preliminary grunts and stretchings the Bully sat up in his ugliest mood.

First there were sundry stretchings of the muscles, followed by a momentary unclosing of the eyelids.

Thirty-fourth week, stretchings of arms and legs accompanying utterance (II, 108).

Violent stretchings of arms and legs accompany (in the thirty-fourth week first) the joyous utterance.

We wanted passionately to get away from each other and indulge ourselves privately in a very orgie of gapes and stretchings.

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On this page you'll find 252 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stretchings, such as: pressure, strain, stress, balance, constriction, and force.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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