Pre-workout activity

Usage examples of stretches.

He could see north above the tree-line to the empty stretches of the Streleheim.

A thousand tributaries wound through steep gorges, the beginnings of snowmelt sending them brawling and tossing around boulders,a few quiet stretches were flat and glittering with ice.

She finished the stretches and took her practice sword down from the rack along one side of the wagon, checked that there was no rust on the bladeMike and Pamela insisted, even with the blunt and nearly pointless blades used for drill-and began a series of cuts, right- and left-handed, to loosen her hands and forearms.

The great concrete plain stretches about me on all sides to vanish in the gray torrent.

Esperson had managed to bring back a dozen passable photographs of scattered stretches of jungle.

All she remembered was the dreaming, although she knew that long stretches had passed in which she was intermittently aware of the struggle it took to draw a single breath, of fever and chills washing through her as though she were racked by a tidal flow.

In those stretches of wilderness between holdings, he heard nothing except the intermittent beat of oars keeping them in the main channel and the lap of water at the bows.

The seaports of the southern tribes were swallowed beneath the rising waters, or left high and dry when the sea was sucked away, so that they abruptly lay separated from the sea by long stretches of sand that once marked the shallows.

Pinks, blue gentian, and yellow stars bloomed on the grassy sward within the stones although whole stretches of ground consisted of dirt tamped down by a great weight now removed.

Thirty paces on, she came to the first of the old shrines, a widening of the trail, where level stretches of scraped bedrock reached out to the sides and the walls of the flanking mountains had been cut sheer.

Misshapen armour and harnesses of leather, stretches of brightly coloured cloth, shiny as silk.

Toyota said it was still only 3:30, and there were stretches of road where the sky flared bright blue overhead, but in the shadows of the trees it seemed almost twilight.

They had journeyed with her back down out of the Ravenshorn, skirted the mountains south along the barren stretches of Olden Moor, crossed again over Toffer Ridge into the forests of Darklin Reach and the valley of Hearthstone, then followed the winding channel of the Chard Rush west until they had reached the little glen where Allanon had fought his final battle.

An air of long abandonment hung about it, roofs gone except for a few stretches of dark tile clinging to bits of rafter, most of the once-white plaster fallen to bare the dark, weathered brick beneath, walls fallen to show courtyards and decaying chambers inside.

The harness webbing stretches, the cable sags, the pulley bearings hum ever so slightly, and I begin to slide faster as I release the brake with both thumbs on the D-ring controls.