Sample Sentences for
marathon
(editor-reviewed)

marathon as in:  ran her first marathon

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    She finished her first marathon in just under four hours.
    marathon = a footrace of about 26 miles
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    The city closes several major streets during the annual marathon.
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    Please record the next several episodes of the ANTM marathon for me.  (source)
    marathon = of especially long duration
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    Perhaps bystanders in the latter stages of a marathon.  (source)
    marathon = long race
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    For instance, we sponsor activities such as marathons, and help in coordinating such events and organizing the medical screening.†  (source)
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    His breathing was even — like the fixed tempo of a marathoner.†  (source)
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    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)
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    "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
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    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)
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    Like a marathoner winning a race.†  (source)
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    Louie had to move so slowly that he couldn't lose the marathon walker creeping along beside him.  (source)
    marathon = a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards
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    You also didn't want the guy who savored Pee-wee Herman marathons.†  (source)
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    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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