Istanbul's renaissance is one that stretches both high and low.

Around the field, 900m of retaining walls stretches 8m high.

Stretched high across the street was a giant banner that carried a new national slogan.

He took the key from her and, stretching high, thrust it into the lock.

Five boys crawled inside and stood up, arms stretched high.

The yard stretches three floors high and two hundred yards in each direction.

Yet the area, where the sky stretches high and wide, still has a touch of frontier to it.

The cliff of ice and snow stretched high above her.

I lay down again on my cot, and stared up at the ceiling stretching high above me.

One day he envisioned there would be towering versions of these things, stretching high into the sky.