Sentence examples for like a relay from inspiring English sources

The perspective of "Featherstone" is passed, like a relay baton, from character to character.

It's rather like a relay, in which one character passes the baton to another.

"Ganesha," like all the longer pieces, moves fast; individual solos are short, and are passed like a relay baton.

"Their life is like a relay race, and Jason is passing the parenting baton to Dionne now," Abecassis says.

The sequence plays like a relay race with the baton being passed from hero to hero, each getting a chance to wreak some mayhem.

The top four players — Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Murray — are like a relay, but instead of passing the baton they are taking turns raising the bar.

Fencing is also both an individual and a team sport: individual bouts are based on a best-of-five hits, while the group event is rather like a relay-race in which each competitor inherits the previous person's points, up to a maximum of 15.

"It is like running a relay, then in the middle of the relay you change your runners.

"Being controller is like being in a relay race.

I tell my husband we can split the holiday in half, changing over like runners in a relay race, passing the baton of the children.

Rather like runners in a relay race, Mr. Marlow and Ms. Frostrup rush guests through their mini-interviews, he in the galleries in front of individual paintings, she on a couch in the lobby overlooking the entrance to the show.