11.   Even youngsters, Knapp found, knew that stretching the truth is part of the business world.

12.   For the record, Vonnegut is stretching the truth when he boasts of living well without semicolons.

13.   Grunting like pigs and stretching the truth usually draw parental censure, but such behavior is deemed praiseworthy in the Haile household.

14.   He just finished his sophomore year at ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch, Colo., but it would be stretching the truth to call him a student.

15.   He may have been stretching the truth.

16.   He has told her that no one plays with him, but she knows from her viewing sessions that he is stretching the truth.

17.   He tattles on his rivals, he stretches the truth of his experiences, all in a self-defeating effort to seem even more perfect.

18.   I stretched the truth a little.

19.   However, you can usually find tell-tale signs on the balance sheets of companies whose revenues are stretching the truth.

20.   Instead of stretching the truth, the father shook his head no.