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Example sentences for: athon

How can you use “athon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Telethon seems here to stay, sanctioned by dictionaries, but no dictionary records the next innovation with -athon , and I can only guess that the new suffix began attaching to other base elements in the 1950s and '60s.
-Athon clearly serves a purpose when a business person or public relations representative wants to advertise a lot of some activity with a single, handy, distinctive term.
But even in these extensions of the word, - athon was only part of a placename, even though now regularly applied to physical activities, and had no meaning on its own in either English or the original Greek.
It describes in spirit, at least, how neomorphemes like -athon, -tigue, -burger, -(a)teria, -alator, -ercize/-icize, -ician, -aholic, -on, -capade, -cade, -alyzer, -gate, heli-, docu- have become affixes.
But utility alone has not kept -athon current.