1.   A Gore spokesman, Chris Lehane, denied that Gore was stretching the truth.

2.   A visit to the company in question reveals that the truth has been stretched more than the foreskin.

3.   Advertising has always stretched the truth, selling the image of a glamorous life in a lipstick tube or athletic prowess in a soft drink can.

4.   But Gore has been hit hard for stretching the truth, even a wee bit.

5.   But maybe that was stretching the truth just a bit.

6.   But the administration stretches the truth when it declares that American forces have created the safe and secure environment that the United Nations made a precondition for transferring authority.

7.   But various federal and state agencies look for misleading advertising and sometimes take action against promoters or companies that stretch the truth too far.

8.   Differences of opinion make horse races and all that, but the opinions should stretch the truth as little as possible.

9.   Earlier he appeared to go out of his way to avoid stretching the truth.

10.   Do you stretch the truth about these matters?