How words are described
| good | good stretch | good trend |
| long | long stretch | long trend |
| particular | particular stretch | particular trend |
| brief | brief stretch | brief trend |
| Other adjectives: certain, annoying, small, entire, real, large, big, serious, slow, slight, bad, main, famous, major, minor, next, extended. | ||
Common collocations
| way | stretch way | trend way |
Both words in one sentence
- The sequel continues this trend; you only run into a single bandit group of about 20 or so guys, who specifically menace similarly small groups of refugees travelling down a particular stretch of tunnel.
Source: More Criminals Than Targets -
Given Ireland's trend toward higher learning, this isn't too much of a stretch.
Source: Film / The Guard - However, he inspired so many other writers to pad out their volumes and stretch their stories over ten or twelve volumes that by the 2000's he gets lumped in with those he inspired, often cited as the Ur-Example, but rarely acknowledged as the man who started the trend.
Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Literature
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Trend and Stretch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stretch/trend
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