Sentence examples for towards the finish of from inspiring English sources

It will not have escaped notice that the Warriors rugby league team also had a match at Eden Park last Saturday, and so the Test pitch will likewise have been put in place towards the finish of the weekend.

A little before midnight on a moonlit night, the solitary beam of a dog musher's head lamp danced across the dark snow and ice of the Bering Sea coast and landed on a barking, trotting, tail-wagging mass of canine excitement: a team of 11 Alaskan huskies straining towards the finish of the legendary Iditarod dog sled race.

Navigating Grael into the best winds was the Isle of Wight-based Jules Salter (his brother, Guy, is that media man) and it is he who has also put the boat at the head of the fleet of eight as it streaks towards the finish of the first leg from Alicante in Cape Town.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are sprinting towards the finish line of the most bitter, divisive and fear-tainted US presidential election of modern times, with polls showing Clinton has the edge.

For now there is no way to explain this tragedy.The explosions went off in the late afternoon, as runners were still jogging towards the finish line of the race.

It finds Coombs Marr disguised as a boorish wannabe comic, dragging himself towards the finish line of his first fringe show in a doomed bid to wow "bigwigs"; mired in prejudice, desperation and cloying love for middle-of-the-road Aussie standup Adam Hills.

In fact, in December 1995, in the storm-tossed Bass Strait between Tasmania and Australia, Murdoch was taking a busman's holiday from his yacht to crew aboard the 78-foot Sayonara, churning towards the finish line of the Hobart-to-Sydney race.

Today, as thousands of people swarmed into Calais and staggered towards the finishing line of their marathon, volcano-blighted journeys, the spirit of Dunkirk was in rather shorter supply.

The month-long Tour de France stormed through the streets of Paris on 27 July, with scores of cyclists swarming towards the finish through a crush of hardcore fans.

But it's one of the most famous moments in Olympic history: Dorando staggered into the stadium, punch drunk with weariness, staggering towards the finish line in front of a packed audience and the Queen Of England.

Two days after his 25th birthday, the Lotto-Soudal rider Wellens was with a five-man breakaway before sprinting clear on the climb towards the finish line on top of the Aremogna.