What is "overstretch"

Usage examples of "overstretch".

Ted Lorrimer in Investments for failing to sell Winkler Consolidated when even a squint-eyed baboon could see it was overstretched in its Central American operation, and a neck sticking out asking for the comprehensive chop.

He told her not to phone the university as the cuts had so overstretched the secretarial staff that private calls were frowned upon.

Tears smarted her eyes and she wanted to cry, but she swallowed them down, anger being her only outlet for her overstretched nerves as she listened to them discussing her as if she were of no consequence.

He sat down wearily, disregarding his beautiful clothes, and astonished me by pressing his elbows against his hips and laying his forehead on the tips of his overstretched fingers.

I sat and ached a lot, and then phoned the taxi firm, who apologised that this Saturday and Sunday had already overstretched their fleet, but they would put me on their priority list from now on… yeah… yeah… never mind… I could have done with a double cyclopropane, shaken, with ice.

They’ve warned him that he may be overstretching himself, and I wonder too, but at the foot of their copy of the letter the senior Fithian wrote: “This young lad seems a good sort.

Sort of thing you'd expect an unqualified wizard kid to be able to do without overstretching themselves?

Sort of thing you’d expect an unqualified wizard kid to be able to do without overstretching themselves?

Without overstretching my imagination, I get the impression that the great god Mars is depicted in a space or diving-suit.

But as a man of advanced years, and as a leader who had organized and carried out countless missions, he also knew that overstretching his logistical lines, even if they were his own personal ones, could lead to disaster for the overall mission.

I stopped worrying that he was overstretching himself in buying the colt and a half-share in Blue Clancy.