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vb. (en-paststretch the truth)
Usage examples of "stretched the truth".
Of course Pan often stretched the truth, and the handsome youth was not at all sure he should believe him.
While Kharl had occasionally stretched the truth, or embroidered it, he'd steered away from out-and-out falsehoods his entire life.
She stretched the truth a little and she said, 'I'll be sixteen in two months.
Jim said, though in the case of his own parents the statement stretched the truth.
Still, who could blame the locals if they stretched the truth a little in the pursuit of a dollar?
He stretched the truth some, bent it some, made it clear that powerful enemies wanted to find him and that the fate of Taglios could hinge on their remaining anonymous till they joined Lady at Dejagore.
Perhaps, in the interest of a good story, I have stretched the truth ever so slightly.