the home straight BrE , także: home straight BrE
the home stretch AmE , także: homestretch AmE

In the homestretch, Violence passed the field to win the race.

To win going away is to be increasing the lead in the homestretch.

Just as we were entering the homestretch, another of our leaders was gone.

Newsweek asked itself in the homestretch of the 1988 campaign.

"We are building up the team with the best and the brightest to take us through the homestretch."

But she stopped running suddenly in the upper homestretch yesterday.

When I took him to the outside in the homestretch, he responded with strength.

The book seems to keep asking: What are artists to do in the "homestretch"?

She came around the final turn, drifted wide on the homestretch and stopped running.

Reynolds made his familiar charge down the homestretch to take second.

I head back over the bridge and down a final descent to the homestretch.

Despite a nasty wind down the homestretch, the athletes were happy.

"They're getting into the homestretch, so I'm happy they got a chance to see a finished product," he said.

He led nearly all the way but didn't clinch anything until the homestretch.

He was challenged in the homestretch, but that other horse didn't have a shot at getting past him.

He ran a strong race for more than a mile and was second by inches coming down the homestretch.

They are asked to make the big move into the homestretch, but they don't fire.

A close loss would be a moral victory heading into the season's homestretch.

He was on the homestretch, and only he knew what that meant.

Stormy Blues had a clear shot in the homestretch, but didn't fire.

She was back on the sidewalk, sprinting down the homestretch.

Mossflower tried to catch her in the homestretch, but could not get close.

When Bruce opened his eyes, the horses were pounding into the homestretch.

I say that even if I'm working like mad, thundering down homestretch on a book.

And halfway through the homestretch, the lead was lost.