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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 will not do to heap scorn on -athon and denounce athoninators as licentious with language.
But utility alone has not kept -athon current.
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.
Even when we scorn yet another neologism with -athon , or ridicule a new -gate (as in Irangate ), or wince at alcoholic becoming chocoholic , it has already made us concentrate on language and refreshed our interest by whetting our humor.
The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.