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# stretchy

«stretchy» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stretchy, stretchier, stretchiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Stretchy means able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull it, and often to go back to its shape after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about materials, «stretchy» is a property: rubber bands, elastic, Lycra and balloons are stretchy, while glass and wood are not. Pupils test which materials are stretchy and fair-test how far they stretch. In everyday life clothes for sport are made of stretchy fabric. Words that mean nearly the same: elastic, flexible.

### examples

- Rubber bands are stretchy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x1)
- I wear stretchy leggings for gymnastics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x2)
- Pizza cheese gets stretchy when it's hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x3)
- Which material is the stretchiest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x4)
- The slime was gooey and stretchy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x5)
- Swimming costumes are made of stretchy fabric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x6)
- Bubble gum is stretchy when you chew it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/#x7)

### note

Comparative: stretchier, stretchiest. From «stretch» + -y. «Stretchy» is informal; in science reports «elastic» is the more exact word: an elastic material returns to its shape; some stretchy things (like gum) do not.

### In the corpora

- [For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very stretchy, which is why scientists study it so closely.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/4/)
- [Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/2/)
- [Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/10/)
- [Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/6/)
- [Glassblowers shape glass that is over 1000 °C, when it is soft and stretchy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stretchy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretchy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.