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Example sentences for: marathon

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

She wanted me to opine about the scandal on Sunday, when the cable news channel will do a Flytrap marathon in anticipation of the president's testimony.
The answer has nothing to do with their cause, however, but with the simple fact that dictionaries are not exercises in bi-unique substitutability; in other words, if one of the senses of run is `operate' (as in She runs an engine factory ), that does not make it valid to assume that one can substitute operate for run in We run in the marathon every year . Although recognizing this as a shortcoming of dictionaries and assigning it arbitrarily to what, for lack of a better term, we might call the “genius” of the language, might seem trivial to the casual observer, it is a valid matter for concern in the realm of lexicology.
The Marathon Man has been replaced by Dr. Soothe.
(Exceptions to this rule: an FX network marathon of NYPD
Instead of USX buying Marathon Oil in a desperate attempt to diversify into a business it hadn't proved it couldn't run, we have Boeing buying McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom buying MCI, and Raytheon buying Hughes Electronics.