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词汇 example_english_stretch-of-imagination
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stretch of imagination

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meanings of stretchand imagination


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stretch
noun
uk /stretʃ/ us /stretʃ/
a continuous area of land ...
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imagination
noun
uk /ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the ability to form pictures in ...
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Examples of stretch of imagination


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In the wildest stretchofimagination one could not say that such an average cost is too much to pay for the education service.
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It extends to other unions, the members of which can by no stretchofimagination be described as skilled men.
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It cannot by any stretchofimagination be said to disclose a comprehensive service.
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I do not see how by any conceivable stretchofimagination one could say that this subsection covers the matter.
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By no stretchofimagination can it be described as a company that is in difficulties.
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By no stretchofimagination could this be called an area of outstanding natural beauty.
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By no stretchofimagination could he be described as ignorant or innocent.
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This concession is so palpably silly that it cannot by any stretchofimagination be made to mean anything whatever.
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I do not think that by any stretchofimagination that matter arises out of the question.
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It is obvious that the unarmed soldiers, returning to their barracks, were attacked by persons who by no stretchofimagination could be called innocent.
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First, no one, by any stretchofimagination, can claim that this sale was devised with service families uppermost in mind.
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That is not securing unity of command, and by no stretchofimagination could it be so described.
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This by no stretchofimagination could be considered as a large percentage.
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They must know that any election which takes place at the present time cannot by any stretchofimagination be assumed to represent the electorate.
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Can we measure, even with the greatest stretchofimagination, what the circumstances are in those homes?
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Can this, therefore, by any stretchofimagination be called an over-riding of the wishes of the governors?
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We all know that by no stretchofimagination can local authority expenditure normally be compartmentalised in the retail price index.
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I do not think that by any stretchofimagination you could call tithe a piece of land.
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That sort of argument cannot by the widest stretchofimagination be used to justify or counterbalance the inhumanity of organised starvation.
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It takes a very great stretchofimagination to expand that into what is now being pictured, namely, the establishment of general municipal trading.
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