Sentence examples for extraordinary stretch from inspiring English sources
Amid this Arctic landscape we entered Jacob's Ladder, an extraordinary stretch of railroad built on high, curving trestling, its 37.41 percent grade the steepest on the line.
During Woods's extraordinary stretch, when he won 7 of 11 majors from August 1999 to June 2002, Mickelson was one of many players who said they felt frustrated and, at times, almost helpless.
While most of Iraq's Shia citizens might desire a prosperous and successful Iran next door, it would be an extraordinary stretch of imagination to claim they would favour turning their land into an Iranian satellite state.
But in an extraordinary stretch drive they gained 47 imps, and a 7-imp victory, against four American world champions: Bob Hamman of Dallas; Paul Soloway of Mill Creek, Wash.; Jeff Meckstroth of Tampa, Fla.; and Eric Rodwell of Clearwater, Fla.
But when the bill appeared headed to a narrow defeat after the normal 15 minutes allowed for voting, Republican leaders kept the vote open for an extraordinary stretch of nearly three hours, described in a 2004 scholarly paper as by far the longest known roll-call vote in the history of the House.
This extraordinary stretching of space explains why the universe is flat.
The pleasure of the book, and a kind of resistance, as well, flows from its extraordinary, stretched, self-recoiling sentences, which are marvels of a loosely punctuated stream of consciousness.
The range of his work is extraordinary, stretching from his lyrical and erotic early films, such as "Summer with Monika" (1953), to the startling metaphysical explorations of "Persona" (1966) and the searing bourgeois domesticity of "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973).
In "Cocksucker Blues," the Stones endure extraordinary stretches of downtime, of boredom in transit or in hotel rooms, watching television (the Democratic National Convention!) or coping with petty promotional duties.
Then frustrated trophy wife Ida Lupino murders her husband and comprehensively loses her marbles in an extraordinary final stretch that is surely a femme-fatale dress rehearsal.
Further inquiries show that the water tank has an extraordinary history stretching back almost two decades.
