1.   The Atlanta metropolitan area now stretches into Tennessee, according to some definitions.

2.   The off-limits areas stretch for blocks.

3.   Across the landscape stretched gaping areas of burned-out forest, with blackened trees stripped of their foliage by the flames.

4.   That area would stretch from Alaska to Chile.

5.   The study area would have stretched from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Canadian border.