Sentence examples for was doubles from inspiring English sources

If the original voice-and-piano "Winterreise" was doubles tennis, then "Schubert's 'Winterreise' " — especially in Jones's dramatization — is more akin to soccer, or baseball.

It was doubles day at Wimbledon, traditionally an extravaganza of crowd-pleasing volleys and memory- invoking rallies, though the outfit Sir Cliff Richard chose to mark the occasion - a suit-and-tie combination in an alarming shade of purple - was a pairing most who saw it would be happy never to encounter again.

There was doubles success early on day five as both Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot made it through to the last 32.

The ban was doubled.

The classOs homework was doubled.

The damage was double.

His salary was doubled.

The string section was doubled, to 128.

But that success was double-edged.

"And so his absence was doubled.

It was double the target.