The Overture has been described as "the single most onomatopoetic stretch of music ever composed".

In daylight hours, the army controls the single 50-mile stretch of road between government-controlled areas to the west and Batticaloa.

It was impossible for me to go that great distance in a single stretch, no matter how accelerated the hellride.

It was an emergency and maintenance run, with a single stretch of laddering up the inside of a plain metallic pipe.

The parcel is the town's largest single stretch of undeveloped land and one of the last places where zoning allows a golf course.

Burun uncoiled himself in a single elastic stretch of his torso, and he stood up.

Making a meal of such treats, however, like reading the 101 movie reviews that kick off "Nobody's Perfect" in a single stretch, is another matter.

She gave a single stretch of her cramped muscles as she rose.

They claimed no single stretch of land for the entire earth itself was their home.

The agency does not keep track of casualty figures for a single stretch of road when its limit rose to 70 from 55.