Sentence examples for finishing stretch from inspiring English sources

He certainly faded with what might have been interpreted as a lack of spine in the finishing stretch.

But it was all pretty mild, even the snarling, proud-to-be-a-loser "Dirty Old Man," compared with the finishing stretch.

Today, the lid of a pressure cooker was discovered on the roof of a building close to the finishing stretch of the race along Boylston Street, one of the busiest east-west thoroughfares in downtown Boston.

This high-risk, little-reward philosophy can turn the hole into a random element, which Woods believes should exclude it from the finishing stretch of such a high-profile tournament.

Two more bogeys followed at the second and third but he found some touch over the finishing stretch as he looks to return to form before next month's Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, the scene of his last Open triumph in 2006.

"I had so much adrenaline as she was coming down, but if there's anybody I'd have 100percentt faith in coming down that finishing stretch as fast as possible, it's Jessie," said the 35-year-old Randall who is competing in her fifth Olympics.

As everyone finished stretching and started to disperse, Rivera lingered.

Prescod finished stretching and headed to the locker room.

He finished stretching, and then worked with leg weights and a medicine ball.

Now it was hers, and the journey he had never finished stretched out before her".

At closing time, his assistants had just finished stretching 120 layers of lawn and tissue paper across the tabletop in preparation for Monday morning.