Sentence examples for length farther from inspiring English sources

Churning a short length farther to satisfy pride, she turned around.

But yesterday, he found the winner's circle, outrunning the favorite, Aptitude, by a length and a half with Unshaded another length farther back in third place and Wheelaway six more lengths back in fourth.

In a mass finish, he found room on the rail and surged ahead to win by three-quarters of a length over Unshaded, who had three-quarters of a length on Globalize, with Tahkodha Hills one length farther back.

Stealcase finished four and a half lengths farther back in third in the field of six 3-year-olds.

As they reached the wire, Yankee Victor was 3 lengths in front, with Watchman's Warning two lengths farther back in third.

He won a homestretch duel with Golden Missile by three-quarters of a length, with Behrens four lengths farther back as the beaten favorite.

Thus, as period lengths deviate farther from 24 hr, they are less likely to be discovered by this method.

For distance, use "farther".

He liked white faces and average-size casings -- the kind that sit neatly atop the wrist without poking over the edge, the ones legible at arm's length, but not much farther.

In general, regions and overlap areas close to the TSS are short and increase in length as they go farther from the TSS.

After a year in which 2,600 public library branches cut back their hours, some readers will need to walk a lot farther than the length of a street.