Use "overstretch" in a sentence

1. to arrive than the overstretched police

2. Nevertheless, to allow Harris to pound Germany into submission, the Royal Navy was forced to undergo cut backs in air support and the overstretched army’s desperate requests for air support were refused

3. But when he urged that a longer step back should be made, that is, a strategic withdrawal, to facilitate the development of the full recoil spring effect of a counter-offensive against an overstretched enemy advance

4. point where you’re overstretching and injuring yourself

5. A letter from Henry Reeves arrives, stating that the resources of the Metropolitan Police are overstretched and this cannot be done

6. 'They've overstretched him on the gum-stretching machine,' said Mr Wonka

7. Claudette Colbert and Macdonald Carey star in this romantic comedy “that feels overstretched even at an hour and a quarter,” in one critic’s appraisal

8. Of the romantic comedy, one critic wrote, “[It] feels overstretched even at an hour and a quarter