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  • Perhaps bystanders in the latter stages of a marathon.   (source)
    marathon = long race
  • It has a screen with a programmable vista: You can jog through the woods, or run the New York Marathon.   (source)
    marathon = a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards
  • Louie had to move so slowly that he couldn't lose the marathon walker creeping along beside him.   (source)
  • "Good for you," said a fifth year Harry had never spoken to; someone was patting him on the back as though he'd just won a marathon;   (source)
    marathon = a footrace of about 26 miles
  • His breathing was even — like the fixed tempo of a marathoner.†   (source)
  • Like a marathoner winning a race.†   (source)
  • It's a doozy, an allegorical gem, and Clarence lays it out sweet and long and full of relish, about how he was coming up past the statue of Johnny Kelley, the ancient Boston marathoner who won the race in the 1930s and ran it into the 1990s ("a hard, 'never say die' old coot, that Kelly") and "I look over and this woman is running alongside me."†   (source)
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  • Sometimes, close to the end of the marathon of sleep, he spoke.   (source)
    marathon = long period
  • In fact, on the Wednesday I made the acquaintance of Augustus Waters, I tried my level best to get out of Support Group while sitting on the couch with my mom in the third leg of a twelve-hour marathon of the previous season's America's Next Top Model, which admittedly I had already seen, but still.   (source)
    marathon = of especially long duration
  • Please record the next several episodes of the ANTM marathon for me.   (source)
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  • Or maybe there's a Lord of the Rings marathon on TV."†   (source)
  • My body felt like its standard self, broken and insufficient in the usual ways, but my brain felt sloppy and exhausted, like the noodle legs of a runner post-marathon.†   (source)
  • With renewed dedication, my uncle turned to Plan B. Our marathon television-watching sessions now had a higher purpose.†   (source)
  • I learned this the hard way during one of my final interviews of the marathon FIP week.†   (source)
  • It didn't take a math genius to calculate that his speed and time combined meant he'd run roughly half a marathon by the time he returned to the Glade.†   (source)
  • Our tea turned into a three-hour marathon of stories about our lives, fears, and dreams.†   (source)
  • A Spaced marathon, perhaps?†   (source)
  • It had elephants and fireworks and marathon dance contests.†   (source)
  • And then he turned into Marathon Man.†   (source)
  • There was a woman curled up on a sofa sleeping off what Mr. Odom laughingly described as 'a marathon binge.'†   (source)
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  • Well, not exactly a marathon.†   (source)
  • Crake has equipped these women with ultra-strong vulvas extra skin layers, extra muscles — so they can sustain these marathons.†   (source)
  • Spencer was on the yearbook staff, in all of the school plays, and was taking five AP classes this year; Melissa did all those things her junior year plus worked at their mother's horse farm and trained for the Philadelphia marathon for leukemia research.†   (source)
  • After I finished, I felt as though I had won the Olympic Marathon.†   (source)
  • There's a Buster Keaton marathon this week.†   (source)
  • He made himself a sandwich and watched a Young Ones marathon on MTV, then fell asleep on the couch.†   (source)
  • Hela, Goddess of Death The day after I got home from our marathon visit, a man Deborah didn't know called her asking if she'd ride on a HeLa float in a black rodeo.†   (source)
  • The next day, they were having a World War II spy marathon (Cairo, The Hidden Enemy, Code Name: Emerald) that I really wanted to stay home and see.†   (source)
  • A thirty -three-year-old Australian with carrot-colored hair and the lean build of a marathon runner, Groom was a Brisbane plumber who worked as a guide only occasionally.†   (source)
  • Forget the Dirty Harry movie marathon.†   (source)
  • Tough, but in BUD/S you were expected to run a half-marathon.†   (source)
  • The Briarcrest academic marathon, in which Michael had started out a distant last and instantly fallen further behind, came to a surprising end: in a class of 157 students, he finished 154th.†   (source)
  • They had been at Marathon and were sailing back to Cape Coral when they'd lost radio contact.†   (source)
  • In her mind, he was almost ready to run the New York Marathon.†   (source)
  • He is panting like he just ran a marathon.†   (source)
  • After work, the bus boys got together for a marathon viewing of his films while dropping pills and chasing them with tequila.†   (source)
  • I fell to my knees, feeling as if I'd run a marathon.†   (source)
  • When you use auric energy, you burn as many calories as if you had run a marathon.†   (source)
  • I watch the people I pass —the two men running, backpacks on, training for the marathon, the young woman in a black skirt and white trainers, heels in her bag, on her way to work and I wonder what they're hiding.†   (source)
  • I was still awake, waiting for him, my brain ca-thunking after a marathon of Law and Order.†   (source)
  • For instance, we sponsor activities such as marathons, and help in coordinating such events and organizing the medical screening.†   (source)
  • Despite the work I had invested in it—my heart was pounding like I had just run a marathon—I abandoned the location and scouted the yard, stopping where the lawn meets the woods at the bottom of the hill.†   (source)
  • When did a rose ever run a marathon?†   (source)
  • Have a bowling marathon.†   (source)
  • At least twice a week we'd meet for a telephone marathon.†   (source)
  • You also didn't want the guy who savored Pee-wee Herman marathons.†   (source)
  • It was like I was running in a marathon and suddenly forgot where the finish line was.†   (source)
  • So I can run a marathon?†   (source)
  • After the Fourth No more writing paper, nothing left to clean, I turned on the TV, thanked God for the Jerry Springer marathon, six great hours, filled with pitiful people, whose lives were way worse than my own.†   (source)
  • It was worth the marathon of cutting and sewing when I walked in for the Report and the first thing I saw was the out-and-out envy in Josie's eyes.†   (source)
  • That's the way I remember relationships starting in college-those obsessive marathon beginnings.†   (source)
  • What about those marathon readings of Goodnight Moon?†   (source)
  • ON I HE weekend when the NewYork Marathon took place, I completed thirteen miles on the quarter-mile track, my own private prison half-marathon.†   (source)
  • At a glance he belongs to these wild privatized times, to the marathon of danced-out plots.†   (source)
  • He talked Howard into committing to the race, even though it was at the marathon distance of one-and-five-eighths miles, farther than Smith wanted to send Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • I swear I have never been so nervous, even when I did that marathon at the station during the hurricane.†   (source)
  • He began running marathons and worked out constantly between expeditions to climb the north face of Mount Baker, Annapurna IV, Baruntse, and several other Himalayan peaks.†   (source)
  • He started by googling laser tape measures and quickly came across a company called Distagage in Marathon, Florida.†   (source)
  • Four miles from Camp Haven to the hotel, and he looked like he'd just sprinted a marathon.†   (source)
  • The grieving Ed Block could never have imagined the great burden that Harlon's three comrades carried with them as they prepared for the marathon of the Seventh Bond Tour.†   (source)
  • Now that Z's here we can start the marathon," Erik said.†   (source)
  • I could see that we were in for an evening of marathon talking, whether anyone else felt up to it or not.†   (source)
  • He ran in a marathon there.†   (source)
  • Yet in my mind I roamed the Acropolis at Athens, watching the moon rise through the open roof of the Parthenon, measuring my height by the grandeur of those columns, walking the streets of those Greeks who died at Marathon, listening to the sound of wind in the ancient olives.†   (source)
  • The horror marathon was over and the television had broken down into a loud, gray fuzz.†   (source)
  • I stopped through on my way to the marathon, you know in Boston.†   (source)
  • There's a Family Ties marathon on TV Land.†   (source)
  • Which is not surprising, since I've just run about a half marathon along endless corridors, trying to get out of this place.†   (source)
  • I took a few steps with assistance, then sat in the chair, exhausted, woozy, as if I had run a marathon.†   (source)
  • The pastor finished with a marathon of a prayer, one obviously designed to burn some clock.†   (source)
  • After five hours of staring at her monitor as she ran makes on the names in DeBlass's books, Eve was more exhausted than she would have been after a marathon race.†   (source)
  • I represent my firm in the marathon.†   (source)
  • The follow-up care had been a marathon of agony.†   (source)
  • It had all gone alrighty, he said, with Wendy Auerbach—in fact Grace was so alrighty about her new leg, she was thinking of putting in for the marathon.†   (source)
  • Frank became so agile and quick with one leg and a crutch that he joked about entering a marathon.†   (source)
  • They were defeated at the battle of Marathon and then at the battle of Salamis.†   (source)
  • Clary felt as if she were running a marathon and couldn't quite catch her breath.†   (source)
  • The man had been a famous marathon runner in his day.†   (source)
  • I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend.†   (source)
  • He said it as a question, and I nodded, leaned in close to him to say good-bye; we sat that way, his breath warm on my face, until I saw Misty running up, her baton pumping at her side like a marathon runner.†   (source)
  • Gabriel restored the angel in a series of marathon sessions.†   (source)
  • And, well, they didn't have me to regurgitate that information and force them to sit in indie movie theaters or have director-themed marathons on the weekends.†   (source)
  • The Marathon would have killed me!†   (source)
  • As with the marathon venery just completed, I could hear the action in almost baroque detail but the speech stayed muffled and indistinct, so I got the impression of shuffling angry feet, chairs wrenched around impatiently, banged doors, and voices rising in rage uttering words I was only partly able to comprehend.†   (source)
  • When Top Cat finally subsided and sank back into his desk, Prophet of the unknown tongue continued the interrupted marathon of Oz, an untranslatable potpourri of grunts and monosyllables, punctuated only by Prophet's beautifully effusive smiles.†   (source)
  • Standing right next to me was a guy in nylon running shorts and a New York City Marathon T-shirt.†   (source)
  • He and I will hang out and have like a marathon session of Resurrection or something.†   (source)
  • Con Ed has never once shut down their power in the middle of a Star Trek movie marathon.†   (source)
  • At the moment, Parzival-TV was wrapping up a nonstop two-day Kikaider marathon.†   (source)
  • "Hey, they're doing a Lord of the Rings marathon at the Bess this weekend.†   (source)
  • I'd much rather stay in and hold a Michel Gondry marathon.†   (source)
  • Especially while Patrick is obsessed with being Marathon Man.†   (source)
  • They're standing still, but it seems harder than running a marathon.†   (source)
  • The thought of taking him abroad felt as likely as me running a marathon.†   (source)
  • I'm still planning to pop some corn and have a Spaced marathon.†   (source)
  • He was having a noncarb month, in preparation for a marathon in early March.†   (source)
  • The room was so long, it could've hosted a marathon.†   (source)
  • The main deck could've accommodated the Boston Marathon.†   (source)
  • Walked right into my arms—blissed on dreamers and a marathon VR session.†   (source)
  • Sounds like a marathon for hawking spitballs.†   (source)
  • Did I tell you about the Boston Marathon in April?†   (source)
  • He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon.†   (source)
  • With the beginning of another weekend, the dance marathon hit.†   (source)
  • My shoes were like new, as shiny as when I dug them out of the Dumpster behind Marathon Sports.†   (source)
  • Berger's muscles ached as though she had just run the Stockholm marathon.†   (source)
  • The first drill was a marathon.†   (source)
  • The week before my wedding, she showed up at our house every day and held marathon baking sessions, filling our house with the aroma of rose water, butter, and roasted nuts.†   (source)
  • Each day when I ran to and from school, I tried to run faster, pounding each step as if I were a marathon runner.†   (source)
  • The students call it FIP—short for Fall Interview Program—and it's a marathon week of dinners, cocktail hours, hospitality suite visits, and interviews.†   (source)
  • Eleanor was this close to asking for a toothbrush, but she thought that would lead to a marathon of hugging and knee-rubbing.†   (source)
  • Ben and Radar both had a marathon band practice to make sure they would rock "Pomp and Circumstance" at graduation.†   (source)
  • Though she has acquired a taste for classical music over the years—"it's like learning to appreciate a stinky cheese"—she's been a not-always-delighted captive audience for many of my marathon rehearsals.†   (source)
  • By the end of our first game, the moves and tricks I'd picked up during all those marathon bouts with Aech were starting to come back to me.†   (source)
  • But when the viewing marathon was over, I still wasn't any closer to understanding the Quatrain's meaning.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result."†   (source)
  • We had sex, a marathon session in which he seemed determined to show off his athleticism, his strength and vigor.†   (source)
  • I was halfway through the fourth episode of my Family Ties minimarathon when the laundry room door creaked open and my aunt Alice walked in, a malnourished harpy in a housecoat, clutching a basket of dirty clothes.†   (source)
  • He says he's training for the marathon.†   (source)
  • He had proposed marathon conferences with the Image-Eye people in Boston, who actually did the spots.†   (source)
  • She thinks she can run a marathon.†   (source)
  • It was during one of Claire's afternoon drug-induced marathon naps that I began to learn about elephants.†   (source)
  • She must have waited up for him, probably watching a marathon of one of those hospital dramas she loved.†   (source)
  • We never knew how happy we were supposed to be until we turned off Interstate 10 and followed the sweeping traffic on one of those mall arteries that resemble a marathon of headlong metal and found her little street and saw her posing in the doorway in stately profile.†   (source)
  • Dad had highlighted a Family Ties marathon for the following Sunday night, using the little slip of paper as a bookmark.†   (source)
  • They mumbled okays and everyone settled in to watch the Will and Grace rerun marathon while we waited for the news.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the idea of the telephone marathon was you had to close your eyes and stick your finger on a number in the directory and then call it up to see how long you could keep whoever answered talking on the phone.†   (source)
  • Rufus Buckley had kicked things off with a oneand-a-half-hour marathon that had put the jury to sleep, and Jake's concise follow-up had been well received and much appreciated.†   (source)
  • With Mr. Taylor, it's either a marathon metaphor or a citation from Scripture, and Cedric has heard the race routine many times before.†   (source)
  • He was a star distance man training for the Boston Marathon and ran that mountain along with a ten-mile route twice a day.†   (source)
  • Oh yes, Cedric, she was flagging, that judge, and she tells me that she's got a friend that lives right near here in one of the nice houses" near the marathon route.†   (source)
  • A few nights later, a crowd of students jostles into MacGregor's lounge for Chinese food, soda, and a rare moment of release from the weekend's study marathon for midterms.†   (source)
  • Alice grabs it with stoical indifference, pumping wearily away like some marathon bellringer while I pant and groan ludicrously and hear myself whimpering such asininities as "Oh God, that's good, Mary Alice!" and catch a glimpse of her lovely and totally unconcerned face even as there rises in me lust and despair in almost equal measure—with despair, however, ascendant regarding this loutish business.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he's the one who started cheating in the telephone marathons we were having.†   (source)
  • But her obsessions tended to be fueled by competition: She needed to dazzle men and jealous-ify women: Of course Amy can cook French cuisine and speak fluent Spanish and garden and knit and run marathons and day-trade stocks and fly a plane and look like a runway model doing it.†   (source)
  • He policed himself rigidly so that he didn't say anything about running or marathons, and laughed whenever he caught the conversation veering in that direction.†   (source)
  • She posed in the doorway in stately profile and we turned off Interstate 10 and entered one of those death marathons of mall traffic and finally found their little street and there she was, pregnant to beat the band.†   (source)
  • Wellington, clad only in his winter heavies, made a wild sortie from Dixieland at two in the morning, announcing the kingdom of God and the banishment of the devil, in a mad marathon through the streets that landed him panting but victorious in front of the Post Office.†   (source)
  • Gallipoli, Balaclava, Quebec, Lepanto, Bannockburn, Roncevales and Marathon—these, and the Battle in the West where Arthur fell, and a hundred such names whose trumpet-notes, even now in my sere and lawless state, called to me irresistibly across the intervening years with all the clarity and strength of boyhood, sounded in vain to Hooper.†   (source)
  • "The water is up in Wine Creek," cried Joe Welling with the air of Pheidippides bringing news of the victory of the Greeks in the struggle at Marathon.†   (source)
  • Anything that took stamina got him--six-day bike races, dance marathons, walkathons, flagpole sitting, continuous and world flights, long fasts by Gandhi or striking prisoners, people camping underground, buried alive and fed and breathing through a shaft--any miracles of endurance and effort, as if out of competition with cylinder walls or other machine materials that withstand steam, gases, and all inhuman pressure.†   (source)
  • …heart,
    then there's hope that you will see your loved ones,
    reach your high-roofed house, your native land at last."
    And with that vow the bright-eyed goddess sped away,
    over the barren sea, leaving welcome Scheria far behind,
    and reaching Marathon and the spacious streets of Athens,
    entered Erechtheus' sturdy halls, Athena's stronghold.
    Now as Odysseus approached Alcinous' famous house
    a rush of feelings stirred within his heart,
    bringing him to a standstill,
    even before he…†   (source)
  • —And Xenophon looked upon Marathon, Mr Dedalus said, looking again on the fireplace and to the window, and Marathon looked on the sea.†   (source)
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