Crossword-Solution: HOMESTRETCH 11 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Rivalry had always been keen, and as the teams were about to enter the long homestretch for the pennant there was battle in the New England air.

Going into the Morgan Hills he had gone like the wind, but now he rushed like a thoroughbred standing a challenge in the homestretch.

They must be racing their horses as if they were entering the homestretch, as if they were sure of the goal.

One morning, when we had made half the circle of the capitals, and were on the homestretch to the one where we had left our dear mother--for Aristides claims her, too--and I was letting that dull nether anxiety for her come to the top, though we had had the fullest telephonic talks with her every day, and knew she was well and happy, we came round the shoulder of a wooded cliff and found ourselves on an open stretch of the northern coast.

Comin' down the homestretch, only needin' about one more jump--for it ain't above a quarter of a mile--Jose, he stands up in his stirrups and pulls off his hat, and just whangs old Pinto over the head with it, friendly like, to show him there ain't no coldness.