Sentence examples for a successful stretch from inspiring English sources

But a successful stretch is just that, Zeile said, a small sampling of games played well.

After finishing his third season in Europe, a successful stretch that left him financially secure but personally unfulfilled, he returned stateside for a chance with the Spurs.

After a successful stretch working on nineteen-fifties showcases, including "The Martha Raye Show," he teamed up with the producer Bud Yorkin.

Why cast Mr. Rogers, a naturally eccentric actor even without a ripe Southern accent, in the role of the straitlaced brother?) "Ridiculous Fraud" does boast a reasonably successful stretch of slapstick in the second act and could be improved by tightening and by eliminating extraneous material.

The role is a huge and successful stretch for Mr. Guest, whose last screen character, Corky St. Clair, a gushy, petulant small-town theater director (and exile from Off Off Broadway) supplied "Waiting for Guffman's" biggest laughs.

In the last decade, he engaged in a publicly reported battle with prescription drugs, after which he disavowed two albums, writing off an extended, commercially successful stretch of his career: "Encore" and "Relapse" "didn't count," he rapped on "Recovery," from 2010.

According to USA Basketball, that run constitutes the most successful stretch for a female team in traditional Olympic sports history.

Felton's 54-game tenure as a Knick was the most successful stretch of his six-year N.B.A. career.

The novel's least successful stretch is a foundation fable for the Sonaghan-Gillaroo feud – we journey to Lough Melvin in the Irish north west and, inevitably as we delve into the mystic, we teeter towards something close to hokeyness.

The following years of their career were seen as the group's most successful stretch, becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

Last night's victory was the Rangers' fourth in a row at home, their longest successful stretch at home since they won six straight in the 1996-97 season.