Sentence examples for by a stroke at from inspiring English sources

Campbell led by a stroke at 19-under-par 197 after three rounds.

Tracy Hanson, who led by a stroke at the end of the second round, was at 207 after a 73.

He once had to airlift his own son, T. J., paralyzed by a stroke at 7. T. J., 27, recovered and is in medical school.

Just as Arnold Palmer did in 1960, when he won the first two and lost by a stroke at the British Open.

The 55-year-old Morgan, who trailed by a stroke at the start of the round, moved into seventh place on the Senior Tour victory list with his first victory since the Instinet Classic a year ago.

Though the family came from Manchester, where Winston was born, and expected to go to Manchester grammar school, it moved to Cornwall when his father was disabled by a stroke at the age of 54.

McIlroy's closing round of 66 secured the tournament by just a stroke, at 14 under par, from his close friend Shane Lowry.

THORPE WINS BY A STROKE -- Jim Thorpe won the Farmers Charity Classic at Ada, Mich., by one shot on the PGA Champions Tour yesterday after one of the second-round co-leaders, Andy Bean, became ill and withdrew.

People can compose individual characters relatively easily by building them up a stroke at a time.

No doubt some in the audience were drawn by the specific program, which intriguingly paired a new work by Magnus Lindberg, the Philharmonic's composer in residence, written in homage to his influential teacher, the French composer Gérard Grisey, with a major score by Grisey, who died of a stroke at 52 in 1998.

That's a fine response by the battling Poulter to dropping a stroke at the opening hole.