Sentence examples for to slow himself from inspiring English sources

And yet, for all that fear, for all that damage, he struggles to slow himself down as he pushes his horses for speed.

Besides his defeat last fall, there was that embarrassing car crash when his driver ran a red light, and he vowed to slow himself down a bit.

A second wave pushed him back down, and he accelerated again through the gantlet, grabbing at things, trying to slow himself down.

Although not shortening his big swing or incorporating a timing mechanism to slow himself, Burnitz is trying to hold back, willing to be late on pitches instead of pulling so many of them foul, as he did last season.

Jones was forced to slow himself and cut inside in order to avoid running into Tomlin, giving Pittsburgh defensive back Cortez Allen the chance to catch up, and make the tackle.

In college he was such a quick and facile writer, and so speedy a typist, that one of his teachers, the critic R. P. Blackmur, once told him that he would never achieve anything until he learned to "stop thinking with his fingers," and Caro actually tries to slow himself down these days.

He better slow himself down.

One area in which he has permitted himself to slow down lately is his fiction.

In retrospect, McIlroy said, he should have forced himself to slow down instead of trying to keep up.

He was accommodating himself to slow, ambiguous change — and, after all, the revolution had achieved some things to build on.

Rather then resign himself to slow extinction in that prison cell, Judt began, as a mental exercise, to recall all his life, from childhood onwards, and turned this into a series of beautiful short "windows of memory" which were published in the New York Review.