Sentence examples for stretches play from inspiring English sources

Over the last two decades it has become increasingly clear that mutations such as duplication, deletion and divergence of genes, regulatory elements and even large chromosomal stretches play a comparable or even larger role in adaptive evolution than the classically studied changes in allele types [ 21- 26].

The Rangers were a self-described mess in the first period, not getting off a shot until the period was nearly half over and spending long stretches playing in their end.

Full-backs offer width; wide players stretch play further while a staggered central midfield trio allow for intricate passing.

Final stretch plays like a hyperminimalist remake of The Hurt Locker.

Greg Niemeyer's "Squash Til Blue Tongue Stretch" plays with the confines of the CLIE's screen.

Like Morton Feldman's glacially paced works for string quartet, "9 Beet Stretch" plays with a listener's response.

He remained eerily calm down the stretch, playing the final six holes of his fourth round in one over par despite missing four of the last five fairways.

They also face a tough schedule down the stretch, playing host to No. 19 Baylor on Wednesday and facing No. 8 Kansas State and No. 24 Oklahoma.

But after three high schools, a six-month stretch playing pickup games at a junior college and affiliations with three other colleges, the Syracuse junior forward Wes Johnson has proved to be an outlier.

He never buckled, despite a couple of early setbacks, and he held it together over that testing closing stretch, playing 17 and 18 about as well as anyone possibly could under such immense pressure.

Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre Company has recently visited the Barbican, performing its radical re-imagining of The Wild Duck, the five acts thinned into a single 80-minute stretch, played within a modernist glass set.