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finish line

noun as in line where race ends

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It crossed traffic and hit the outside wall, flipping before being hit by Corey LaJoie’s car and flying higher before, upside down, it skidded across the finish line.

But, if nothing else, at least the finish line seems a bit nearer now.

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Yet here we remain, trying to survive a marathon where the finish line is a moving target dependent on many feet other than our own.

Then, as you crossed the finish line on your own first run, your coach excitedly signaled to you that you were faster than your opponent.

If you were to run a race at a perfectly even pace, you’d use up your anaerobic capacity gradually, hitting zero as you cross the finish line if you judge it right.

In 2008 and 2012, Huckabee and Santorum, respectively won the Iowa Caucus, but did not make it to the finish line.

Given how little time they had to whip this project to the finish line, they accomplished a lot.

Five months later, de Blasio won the primary and then trotted through the finish line.

It took another 55 years or so for the suffragists to push their right to vote over the finish line.

On its own, cross-country ski racing requires incredible endurance; competitors often collapse when they cross the finish line.

We were nearing the finish line, and we were pretty well worked up––the awful squalls were swooping down and burying us.

Barclay ran across the track with one end of the tape,—the finish line; Mr. Randolph held the other.

Then—Bert reached down, and with the finish line but a short hundred yards ahead, opened wide the air shutter on the carburetor.

So near were they to the finish line now that the calls of the class cheerers came clearly through the cold, crisp air.

Tapwater crossed the finish line nine lengths ahead, setting a new track record.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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