Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a circular or oval race-course which is at the side opposite to the finish; the part opposite the home-stretch.
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Examples
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As the 2009 baseball season entered into its crucial back-stretch, so with it came another critical checkpoint.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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As the 2009 baseball season entered into its crucial back-stretch, so with it came another critical checkpoint.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Sensing that no other horses seized control of the race the other five horses dawdled along, seemingly trying to save something for a stretch run, the jockey boldly moved his hands in along the reins, and the horse responded with a spectacular back-stretch run.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Sensing that no other horses seized control of the race the other five horses dawdled along, seemingly trying to save something for a stretch run, the jockey boldly moved his hands in along the reins, and the horse responded with a spectacular back-stretch run.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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The back-stretch was the stretch, startin 'from the half.
Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915
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Already lights were gleaming down the back-stretch, engines were puffing upward, bearing ties and rails and ballast and abuttment materials, on toward the expected, with men ready to repair the damage as soon as it was done.
The White Desert Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913
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Murphy would pressure Leslie until taking top spot along the back-stretch of lap 16.
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Murphy would pressure Leslie until taking top spot along the back-stretch of lap 16.
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Murphy would pressure Leslie until taking top spot along the back-stretch of lap 16.
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Murphy would pressure Leslie until taking top spot along the back-stretch of lap 16.
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