How to Use overstretch in a Sentence

overstretch

verb
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  • These cuts had left trust and safety teams overstretched, two of these senior sources say.
    — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Calf strains happen when the calf muscles get overstretched.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • The abnormal curve can cause muscles to be tight and overstretched on one section of the spine and compressed on another.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023
  • However, anyone can tear their Achilles tendon – which connects the calf muscle to the heel bone – if the tendon is overstretched.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Relief efforts in Gaza are already overstretched, as trucks and fuel remain in short supply.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • This tissue, when overused or overstretched, can become inflamed, causing pain.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
  • With the reservoirs at the big upstream dams at near full capacity, water is being allowed to flow downstream, where the valley’s grid of canals, pipes and ditches is overstretched and spilling.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Starbucks has taken steps to address workers’ complaints about being overstretched in stores.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Then came the pandemic, which found U.S. manufacturers at the mercy of distant and overstretched supply chains.
    — Valerie J. Karplus, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Classes are overcrowded, resources are thin and teachers are overstretched.
    — Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Officials have attributed those schedule changes to the impacts of last July’s redistricting and the need to be cautious about overstretching the program.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As yet, there are no contingency plans for handling clusters of cases that might overstretch health care facilities.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
  • Mutations build up over time in the cells, sometimes causing the production of defunct proteins, which makes those rubber bands overstretched or less snappy, Studenski says.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
  • Already overstretched generals do not want to take on the job of protecting U.S. borders and are hesitant to launch missions that might tarnish Americans’ respect for the military.
    — Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The 59-foot duck became overstretched due to hot weather and rising air pressure, organizers said according to the Associated Press.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • He was already overstretched and underfunded—and afraid that further escalation on the border could propel a hundred thousand more people into Tyre alone.
    — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The real insight of the debate over administrative effectiveness was that governments could overstretch themselves by taking on too many tasks.
    — Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Russia’s enormous military buildup near Ukraine features some of its most potent weapon systems and provides the Kremlin with the means to attack Ukrainian forces from multiple directions, which likely would overstretch their defenses.
    — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Nuñez-Neto said that without the policy, DHS expects to see an increase in border crossings that would hurt local border communities and overstretch government resources.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The country is facing long-term headwinds from an ageing population, chronically weak growth and overstretched public services, amplified by a surge in borrowing costs.
    — Reuters, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That would place additional demand on a network of clinics that is already overstretched, particularly in states that have become destinations for people who must travel for care.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Accounts from Myanmar army soldiers who have surrendered or defected over the past three months reveal that the military is suffering from plunging morale and overstretched logistics amid a rebel offensive that has prompted mass surrenders.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, many non-profits, especially at the local level, are overstretched as major disasters become more frequent and destructive.
    — Lauren Lee, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • For the British, gaining newfound territory while being financially and logistically overstretched, meant trying to run the newest parts of their empire—including the Palestine mandate—informally and on the cheap.
    — TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The collapse of the Syrian economy and growing discontent among Assad loyalists—as well as a Turkish military intervention that has pro-regime forces badly overstretched—have created an opening.
    — Jennifer Cafarella, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2020
  • However, elastic waistbands can deteriorate and overstretch over time.
    — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The American shipbuilding industry is already overstretched, with the country’s two submarine shipyards suffering from capacity and workforce issues.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These cuts had left trust and safety teams overstretched, two of these senior sources say.
    — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Calf strains happen when the calf muscles get overstretched.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • The abnormal curve can cause muscles to be tight and overstretched on one section of the spine and compressed on another.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023

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