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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:

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.
That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
-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.
A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.
But utility alone has not kept -athon current.