Sentence examples for a race down from inspiring English sources

With polls indicating a race down to the wire in the Republican presidential primary on Saturday, Senator John McCain of Arizona and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas began the final week of campaigning by pleading with independents and Democrats to show up on Election Day and provide victory's edge.

Kids can make their own stick horses for a race down Mamane Street.

Jack Savage, author of "Chris-Craft" (MBI Publishing), said there was even a race down the Colorado River.

The festival also features concerts (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) and the Canis Lupus Challenge, a race down a gnarly half-mile natural halfpipe.

Payne was tested again that year, just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when she swam in a race down the Xin Jinhe river in Shantou, China.

I remembered him once daring me to a race down those stairs, saying that he could descend the three flights faster than it would take me to go down in the lift.

And I believe this'll be a tough race, down to the wire.

But to cap this with "And I believe this will be a tough race, down to the wire" was demeaning.

A boy in a straw hat stood at a concrete headgate and, turning a wheel, let a flood of irrigation water race down a dusty ditch.

Other press reports have boiled the race down to a civil war over abortion and gay marriage.

"This is not a life," he said one recent afternoon, as a blizzard raced down from the mountains.