Sentence examples for stretch by a from inspiring English sources

Death is a damnable measuring tape, but some of us are longer than others in the stretch, by a nose.

I beat him out in the stretch by a scant two feet". Curtis ran the hurdles that day in 17.6 seconds.

By the fine Dutch gabled house at Clayhithe, home to the "conservators" of the river who were given control of this stretch by a 1702 act of parliament and still look after it, the landscape opens out.

(Ages 3 to 8) A boy named Simon is challenged to growl by a dog, to stretch by a cat, to jump by a horse -- and then is tricked by a tiger.

"I wanted to stop the bleeding, but this one is not about me," said Burnett, who extended the best stretch by a Pirates pitcher since Doug Drabek won six in a row during his National League Cy Young Award-winning season.

After getting outworked down the stretch by a Memphis team that just competes its heart out, writes Gary Parrish on CBSSports.com, the Thunder used another lengthy defensive lapse to put themselves on a 3-1 brink of losing this series, Berry Tramel writes in The Oklahoman.

It's a stretch, by any means, to call the current House an example of representative democracy.

You can increase the strength of the stretch by wrapping a belt or a towel around the foot and pulling gently on both sides with your hands.

Don't over-stretch in the morning, just relax and stretch by holding a position where you are just starting to feel a burn.

Vertical axis is stretched by a factor of 200.

Vertical axis is stretched by a factor of ~220.