marathon
Example Sentences
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What happened would better be understood as the “Mississippi marathon.”
We had spelling bees and math marathons, or we stood up and said what we were going to do that summer, or what we would do if we were king of the world.
From Literature
Since then, Styles has kept a low profile - although he was spotted in Vatican City for the announcement of the new pope in May 2025, and ran a sub-three hour marathon in Berlin last September.
From BBC
“It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon,” she said.
She said the plasterer, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was due to climb Yr Wyddfa twice in one day as part of his training for an ultra marathon the following weekend.
From BBC
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