Sentence examples for to force a gap from inspiring English sources

I tried to force a gap and get on.

He had done well even to be there, however, having to use his head and shoulders to force a gap at 300 metres to go when he was briefly sandwiched between Greipel's team-mate Marcel Sieberg and Ramon Skinkeldam of Giant, who went on to finish third.

They attempted to force a gap in the British lines between the commandos and the 3rd Parachute Brigade to reach Ranville.

Okoro was guilty of getting her tactics wrong as she pushed ahead with 300m to go but was unable to force a big enough gap to thwart Simpson, and the 25 year-old steamed past her.

The camera had a time exposure, so Strindberg was able to take a picture of the three of them trying to force a sledge through a gap in the ice.

To Leibstandartes right, Das Reich was to advance as well, moving east to the high ground south of Prokhorovka, then turning south away from Prokhorovka to roll up the Soviet line and force a gap in the Soviet defenses.

The German army came within 70 km of Paris, but at the First Battle of the Marne (6 12 September), French and British troops were able to force a German retreat by exploiting a gap which appeared between the 1st and 2nd Armies, ending the German advance into France.

The owners are using the revenue gap to try to force a salary cap on players.

Further west in the First U.S. Army area, American attacks forced a gap in the German defences.

"My parents forced me to go to a gap year fair and for the most part it was for-profit companies that say, 'Pay us to go to a third-world country.' But there were two guys in red jackets and I went over to them and in 10 minutes they had completely changed my mind".

He wriggled through a gap to force himself into second, but neither he nor Cram could find the extra burst of pace to overtake Rono on the home straight.