Sentence examples for with a spur from inspiring English sources

He said he had been pitching for some time with a spur in his left shoulder.

The hotel is right beside the Sugar River State Trail, with a spur that leads to the hilltop brewery.

And even these prodigies need to be ridden with a spur and a bridle.Mr Bock is an unabashed defender of elitism.

The flower, variable in colour, but not red, usually grows singly on a stalk and has five petals, four arranged in unlike pairs, the fifth with a spur (see photograph).

He should know: he is trying to build a A$3 billion inland railway, connecting Melbourne to Brisbane, with a spur to Sydney, and his biggest problems are regulatory, not financial.Chip Goodyear of BHP Billiton is in the same camp.

Most of the journey will be on the latter stages of the North Downs Way, which runs from Farnham in Surrey to Dover with a spur taking you to Canterbury.

Spencer went on stage that evening with a spur-of-the-moment impression of Richard Nixon, puffing out his chubby toddler cheeks and waving the victory sign.

At least when she addresses an unpleasant character with a spur-of-the-moment nickname (as in "Look, Barbie, this is us making an appointment") in her best Carla Tortelli snarl, it seems to come from the heart.

Hadow's defining 75-day trek to the North Pole in 2003, alone and with no aeroplanes to resupply him, began with a spur-of-the-moment promise to his father on his deathbed, a promise which was to haunt him for 10 years through two earlier failed attempts and financial and health problems.

During a trip to Spain that December, she tested him with a spur-of-the-moment side visit to Morocco, during which she refused to set an itinerary or make hotel reservations, and tried to immerse him in the local culture.

For Vince, a vice president of an online services company, who spoke on the condition his last name not be used, risk came with a spur-of-the-moment impulse to visit a sex club after seeing a movie with friends.